murine

From Latin stem, mur-, of mus (“mouse”) + -ine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹaɪn

murine (comparative more murine, superlative most murine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
   • 2023, Kate Atkinson, “Existential Marginalisation”, in Normal Rules Don’t Apply, Penguin (2024), page 133:

     They had watched, paralysed, as, squeaking with terror, her small murine body was ripped to pieces, Tilly yipping gleefully with excitement all the while.

   Coordinate terms: mouselike, mousy

2. More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
   • 1977, Richard Peto^(WP)

     Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?

   • 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:

     One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.

• rodential

murine (plural murines)

1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

• murein, unimer

• IPA^(key): /muˈri.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: mu‧rì‧ne

murine

1. feminine plural of murino

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /muːˈriː.ne/, [muːˈriːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /muˈri.ne/, [muˈriːne]

mūrīne

1. vocative masculine singular of mūrīnus

Adjective murin, morin, from the verb morir (“to die”).

murine oblique singular, f (oblique plural murines, nominative singular murine, nominative plural murines)

1. plague; pestilence

• Middle French: morine
• Norman: mouoréne
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: mourine