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"Rodentia" Quotes from Famous Books
... resemblances among mice of the house and field, and of rats and rabbits and squirrels. All of them possess heavy curved gnawing teeth, or incisors, and lack the flesh-tearing or canine teeth. They agree in many other respects which distinguish them as a separate natural order of the mammals called the rodentia. Again we find a highly aberrant form in the flying squirrel, which leads toward an order with another plan of body. This animal is a true rodent, which lengthens its leap from branch to branch by means of a fold of skin stretching between its fore and its hind limbs. It is an animated aeroplane, ... — The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton |
Words linked to "Rodentia" : gnawer, naked mole rat, order Rodentia, suborder Myomorpha, Hystricomorpha, Myomorpha, rodent, Sciuromorpha, suborder Hystricomorpha, suborder Sciuromorpha, animal order, Eutheria, subclass Eutheria |
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