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mountain degu

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

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A South American rodent, Octodontomys gliroides, related to the degus.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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  • 1990 [1936], James Frank Colyer (original author), A. E. W. Miles, Caroline Grigson (editors), Colyer's Variations and Diseases of the Teeth of Animals, 2003, Revised Edition, page 317, In Octodontomys gliroides (mountain degu), the buccal surfaces of the upper cheek teeth are progressively turned more and more distally from the distal to the mesial ends of the arches, with P4 being nearly transverse to the line of the arch (Fig. 14.3).

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  • Finnish: tsostsos — Octodontomys gliroides
  • Polish: koszatnik pilchowaty — Octodontomys gliroides
  • Russian: соневи́дный де́гу (sonevídnyj dégu) — Octodontomys gliroides
  • Russian: соневи́дный восьмизу́б (sonevídnyj vosʹmizúb) — Octodontomys gliroides