PIED LEMMING

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Meaning:

North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pied lemming" is a kind of...):

lemming (any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pied lemming"):

Dicrostonyx hudsonius; Hudson bay collared lemming (of northern Canada)

Holonyms ("pied lemming" is a member of...):

Dicrostonyx; genus Dicrostonyx (pied lemmings)

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