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Dormouse   /dˈɔrmˌaʊs/   Listen
Dormouse

noun
(pl. dormice)
1.
Small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather.





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"Dormouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... of ice, Which a monkey in waiting served up in a trice. Then the jaguar, the couguar, and fierce Ocelot, And Sir Hans Armadillo, who came at full trot, Brother Jonathan Beaver, escaped from the trappers, Sloth, Tortoise, and Dormouse, notorious nappers. That beau, the musk-Ox, with his long scented hair, And John Bull just arrived on his travels, were there; Messrs. Martin, Hare, Squirrel, the Ermine, and Stoat, And the rock-mountain sheep, with his cousin, the goat; Then ...
— The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic • F. B. C.
... violets in the springtime. She could recognize the group of tall elms, and knew that if she kept to the right she might creep through a hole in the hedge, and make her way across some fields into the high road. As quietly as some little dormouse or night ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil


Words linked to "Dormouse" :   Gliridae, Glis glis, lerot, gnawer, Muscardinus avellanarius, family Gliridae, loir, hazel mouse, rodent


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