murid

1. not comparableOf or belonging to the family Muridae.

   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.

   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 Oct 2024

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   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.

   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 Aug 2017

   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 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 Sep 2024

plural murids

1. Any rodent in the family Muridae.

   Near-synonyms: mouse, rat

   Synonyms: mouse, rat

plural murids

1. A Sufi novice committed to enlightenment under a spiritual guide.

   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.

   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 01 Sep 2013

2. A member of the largest of the three hereditary Yazidi castes, composed of laypeople charged with seeking spiritual guidance from the sheikhs and pirs.

plural Murids

1. Alternative letter-case form of murid (Yazidi caste)