Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The fourth Linnean order of Mammalia, composed of the genera Hystrix, Lepus, Castor, Mus, Sciurus, and Noctilio: excepting the last, the same as
Rodentia , the rodents or Rosores. - [lowercase] Plural of
glis , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of mammals; the Rodentia.
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Examples
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They argue that this necessarily implies an adaptive function for the appendix, otherwise it would not have been retained in so many of the primates and glires.
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Et dicitur sic quod sompnus facit glires pingues et crescere. '
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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Take the mammalia, and it is in like manner found to be composed of five orders, -- the cheirotheria, {239c} ferae, cetacea, glires, ungulata.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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The porcupine, he might say, is of the class mammalia, and the order glires.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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The art of rearing and fattening great numbers of glires was practised in Roman villas as a profitable article of rural economy, (Varro, de Re Rustica, iii.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The art of rearing and fattening great numbers of glires was practised in Roman villas as a profitable article of rural economy, (Varro, de Re Rustica, iii.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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