jird

(jûrd)

Any of various small burrowing rodents chiefly of the genus Meriones found in arid regions of Africa and Asia, having large dark eyes and a long furry tail and including the domesticated gerbil.

[Colloquial Maghrebi Arabic jird, rat, jird, ultimately from Arabic juraḏ; see grḏ in Semitic roots.]

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jird

(dʒɜːd)

(Zoology) a rodent, similar to a Mongolian gerbil

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Noun

jird - gerbil of northern Africa

gerbil, gerbille - small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping

genus Meriones, Meriones - a genus of Cricetidae

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Sub-periodic strain of Brugia malayi was maintained in Mastomys coucha and jirds (Meriones unguiculatus) through Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (Murthy et al., 1983, 1997).

Antifilarial diarylheptanoids from Alnus nepalensis leaves growing in high altitude areas of Uttarakhand, India

Habitat-dependent differences in architecture and microclimate of the burrows of Sundevall's jird (Meriones crassus) (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) in the Negev Desert, Israel.

Burrow Systems Of Iranian jerboa (Allactaga firouzi Womochel, 1978)

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The genus Meriones, the tamarisk gerbils or jirds, is represented by two species, the Libyan jird (M.

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To test our hypotheses, we studied plant selection, dry matter digestibility (DMD), and energy relations in three gerbilline rodents (Muridae: Gerbillinae; Wilson and Reeder 1993): Henleyi's gerbil (Gerbillus henleyi; body mass 8-12 g), one of the smallest rodent species; the rock gerbil (Gerbillus dasyurus; body mass 20-33 g); and the fat jird (Meriones crassus; body mass 50-110 g).

Granivory and plant selection by desert gerbils of different body size

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