Definitions
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- proper noun
Gliridae . A taxonomicfamily within theinfraorder Glirimorpha — thedormouse .
Etymologies
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Myoxus (“early genus name of Glis”) + -idae
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_Myoxidae_ in India, unless _Mus gliroides_ should turn out to be
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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