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comparative more murine, superlative most murine
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse. examples
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. quotations examples
Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?
1977, Richard Peto
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.
2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, page 699
plural murines
(zoology) Any murine mammal.