Murid

Quick meaning: Murid is an adjective meaning Of or belonging to the family Muridae.

Meaning

Of or belonging to the family Muridae.

More Meanings

1. Any rodent in the family Muridae.
2. A Sufi novice committed to enlightenment under a spiritual guide.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: mouse, rat

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• murids

Synonyms for murid

Depending on context, synonyms include mouse, rat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rodents, muroid, petromurid, muroidean, murine, eumuroid.

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