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▸ noun: especially of species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster) and species of genus Phodopus (dwarf hamsters), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
▸ noun: 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).
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.
Similar:
cricetid,
cricetide,
golden hamster,
deer mouse,
cardiocraniine,
guinea pig,
mouse,
hystricomorph,
heteromyd,
catarhine,
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golden,
syrian,
chinese,
male,
female,
djungarian,
cardiomyopathic,
european,
siberian,
normal,
newborn
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