Definition of "jerboa" []

• Any of various small nocturnal leaping rodents of the family Dipodidae of Asia and northern Africa, having long hind legs and a long tufted tail. (noun)

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• "One who knows anything about the structure of animals 'bodies need not be told that the jerboa is a rodent."
• "As the new-comer got on his feet again my hope gained new life, and now our jerboa is my delight."
• "a marsupial which lives in thick, dark forests, where it feeds upon leaves and fruit; and the tarsier, a kind of jerboa, a very harmless, inoffensive little animal with reddish-coloured hair, about the size of a rat, but whose body bears some resemblance to that of an ape."