Genus Oryzomys (Noun)
Meaning
Rice rats.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Mammalogists have been studying the genus Oryzomys which constitutes mainly nocturnal-semiacquatc or terrestrial rodents known as rice rats.
- Genus Oryzomys is most frequently associated with rodent rodents originating in the New World known for being pests of crops including cultivated rice.
- Rice rats belong to the diverse and widespread genus Oryzomys that once was huge spreadly over to northern Argentina to the United States of America.
- Speculative arguments over rodents of genus Oryzomys put further concern on studies for agriculture yield losses including those related to planted rice.
- Rodents belonging to genus Oryzomys became model research animals elucidating details about naturally spreading diseases between these rodents, and eventually human transmission.