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SHREWMOUSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: shrewmice   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles

Synonyms:

shrew; shrewmouse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("shrewmouse" is a kind of...):

insectivore (small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals)

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

common shrew; Sorex araneus (common American shrew)

masked shrew; Sorex cinereus (commonest shrew of moist habitats in North America)

Blarina brevicauda; short-tailed shrew (North American shrew with tail less than half its body length)

water shrew (any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams)

Cryptotis parva; least shrew (small brown shrew of grassy regions of eastern United States)

Holonyms ("shrewmouse" is a member of...):

family Soricidae; Soricidae (shrews)

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