Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

murine

/ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables: murine
IPA: /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.

adj

More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.

noun

Any murine rodent.

Example Sentences

"They had watched, paralysed, as, squeaking with terror, her small murine body was ripped to pieces, Tilly yipping gleefully with excitement all the while."
"1977, Richard Peto⁽ᵂᴾ⁾ Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?"
"One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation."
"Near-synonyms: murid, muroid, mouse, rat, vole (all precisely differentiable but not always differentiated)"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

Inflected Forms

more murine (comparative) most murine (superlative) murines (plural)

Derived Forms

antimurine murinise murinization murinize murinometric muromonab nonmurine

Frequently Paired Words

mouselike mousy

Synonyms

murid muroid mouse rat vole

Rhymes With

fluorine urine

Questions

How do you pronounce murine?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/.
What does murine mean?: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
Where does murine come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

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