DORMOUSE (dormice)
Dictionary entry overview: What does dormouse mean? • DORMOUSE (noun)
The noun DORMOUSE has 1 sense:
1. small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather
Familiarity information: DORMOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DORMOUSE (noun)
Meaning:
Small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("dormouse" is a kind of...):
gnawer; gnawing animal; rodent (relatively small gnawing animals 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)
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