mole shrewn.
/ˈməʊl ʃruː/, U.S. /ˈmoʊl ˌʃru/ 1. A North American short-tailed shrew of the genus Blarina, esp. B. brevicauda.
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1857 S. F. Baird Mammals (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific VIII) i. p. xxxii Blarina talpoides, Gray.—Mole-Shrew.—Halifax, N. S. Montreal to Columbus, Ohio, and Western Georgia.
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 148 The typical species, called the Mole-shrew, Blarina brevicauda.
1917 Mammals Amer. 310 Short-tailed Shrew. Blarina brevicauda... Other name.—Mole Shrew.
1962 M. Burton Syst. Dict. Mammals of World 43 Short-tailed Shrew, Blarina, or Mole Shrew (Blarina brevicauda).
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1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 376 The Hairy-tailed Mole-shrew Urotrichus talpoides.
3. A burrowing shrew, Anourosorex squamipes, of mountain forests in eastern and southern Asia.
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1984 D. Macdonald Encycl. Mammals II. 760 Genus Anourosorex. One species: mole-shrew (A. squamipes).
1991 Geobios 24 601 Anourosorex oblongus nov. sp., like the extant East Asian mole shrew A. squamipes, differs from alleged European Anourosorex species which we refer to the genus Crusafontina.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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