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rodent

/rohd-nt/US // ˈroʊd nt //UK // (ˈrəʊdənt) //

啮齿动物,啮齿类动物,鼠类,鼠患

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : belonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers, etc.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a rodent mammal.

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Examples

  • Tye began using optogenetics in rodents to trace the neural circuits involved in emotion, motivation, and social behaviors.

  • When rodents and monkeys face early-life adversity, the HPA axis gets thrown off-kilter.

  • It was the rodent equivalent of a human’s nice home and family.

  • Similarly, observations of rodents exposed to radiation suggest that space radiation impairs cognitive function, researchers reported in a review article in the May 2019 Life Sciences in Space Research.

  • Hungry rodents now might be forced into the open in search of meals.

  • She paints the current rodent situation as more than a foul inconvenience, and one that is a particular blight on poorer areas.

  • Or once in a while the rodent will spread infection by biting causing a disease called, chillingly enough, rat bite fever.

  • Up to 10,000 campers at Yosemite National Park may have been exposed to a deadly rodent-borne illness.

  • Aëtius differentiates phagedenic and rodent ulcers and cancer.

  • Being at some distance I supposed it to be one of the rodent animals, and I fired at it.

  • To my surprise he took a little stove from under his arm, lighted a fire, and in a few minutes had the rodent roasted to a crisp.

  • They were still as fast, still with the same anti-rodent disposition, but they were no longer small.

  • She had a shock of bright pink hair and a sharp, rodent-like face, with big sunglasses that were practically air-force goggles.