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語源 1

An appellativization from Murid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names); by surface analysis, ending in suffix -id.

形容詞

murid (not comparable)

1. Of or belonging to the family Muridae.
   • 2000 June 25, E[dward] O[sborne] Wilson, “The Writing Life”, in The Washington Post‎, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2017:

     The theory of faunal dominance holds that while evolution occurs everywhere, certain land masses generate disproportionately more terrestrial and aquatic groups, such as the familiar murid rodents and ranid frogs, which are able to colonize and dominate other land masses.

   • 2024 September 17, Ben Goldfarb, “Book Review: How One Weird Rodent Ecologist Tried to Change the Fate of Humanity”, in Scientific American‎, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 September 2024:

     Calhoun, an endlessly inventive designer of experiments, built an enclosure outfitted with rat apartments and partitioned the pen into connected “neighborhoods,” creating a murid arcadia that he could observe at his leisure.

   • 2024 October 24, Annie Lowrey, “Ratpocalypse Now”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 October 2024:

     Given how hard it is to study urban rats, we know remarkably little about them; we know more about moose in the Yukon than we do about my murid neighbors in New York.

名詞

murid (plural murids)

1. Any rodent in the family Muridae.

   Hypernyms: (taxonomically) muroid < myomorph, myodont < rodent < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism; (otherwise) gnawer, critter, creature

   Hyponym: murine

   Near-synonyms: mouse, rat

使用する際の注意点

• The hypernymy of the words in their strict senses is muroid (superfamily Muroidea) > murid (family Muridae) > murine (subfamily Murinae), although in broad use the taxon-specific distinctions below superfamily are often ignored.

語源 2

From Arabic مُرِيد (murīd, literally “seeker”).

名詞

murid (plural murids)

1. A Sufi novice committed to enlightenment under a spiritual guide.
   • 2007 November 22, Tom Parfitt, “The battle for the soul of Chechnya”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 September 2013:

     And when Russian troops attacked breakaway Chechnya in the early 1990s, separatist fighters were often seen performing the stirring ritual the zikr, during which murids dance in a circle while crying hypnotic chants.

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アナグラム

• mudir, dumri