Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.

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  • adjective characteristic of a rodent

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Examples

  • Tristina twitches her elbows prepping for takeoff to Hag's Tooth Peak known for its rodential abundance.

    Rodential Patrols lucinda kempe 2012

  • How to keep the house free of the tiny mice that sneak inside every autumn, when the cold air ruffles their rodential dispositions.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008

  • How to keep the house free of the tiny mice that sneak inside every autumn, when the cold air ruffles their rodential dispositions.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008

  • The institute's massive mapping effort began in 2003, using laser microdissection and high-throughput informatics to extract data from thin shavings of rodential gray matter.

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  • Unlike the lemmings of the nation, or other rodential mass-migrators, we will not be taking to the roads today, over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house for Thanksgiving.

    The sun also rises jhetley 2006

  • Anyway, part of me- the not-so-cautiously optimistic part- is already rubbing its little rodential hands together and thinking with glee that we need to have a BIG PARTY if this paper actually gets published.

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  • There may be something, after all, in the condition of Paris life which fosters the development of this peeky, rodential countenance.

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • Indicus_, [27] but the rodential tusks are broader and flatter to the front.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- "Nearly affined to _M. platythrix_ (Sykes), but of a dark dusky colour above, with fulvous tips to the softer fur; below and all the feet dull whitish; upper rodential tusks orange, the lower white; whiskers long and fine, the posterior and longer of them black for the basal half or more, the rest white."

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Victor (beginning to appreciate a rodential odor).

    The Story of a Mine Bret Harte 1869

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