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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



... Awoke, and up an hour before being called; but dawdled three hours in dressing. When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation),—sleep, eating, and swilling—buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore


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


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