Hamster

/ˈhæm(p)stɚ/ · noun

Meaning

Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
2. Any of various other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).
3. (ambitransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.

Example Sentences

The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.

Since the pregnancy interceptive agents or the menses regulators may also influence the development of either trophoblasts or the maternal cells (epithelial and stromal) at the embryo attachment site, another in vitro assay method using using trophoblast cells of hamster and mouse isolated from a preplacental organelle, the ectoplacental cone, has been developed.

Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.

[…] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored […]

[…] eastern children frequently “hamstered,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform […]

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• hamsters
• hampster
• hamstering
• hamstered

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