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DORMOUSE
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Irregular inflected form: dormice
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dormouse" is a kind of...):
gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dormouse"):
Glis glis; loir (large European dormouse)
hazel mouse; Muscardinus avellanarius (a variety of dormouse)
lerot (dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa)
Holonyms ("dormouse" is a member of...):
family Gliridae; Gliridae (dormice and other Old World forms)
