单词 | mousery |
释义 | mouseryn. 1. A place where mice abound; a colony of mice. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Mus or mouse > hole or place frequented by mouseholec1475 mousery1888 1888 F. A. Lucas in Auk 5 280 The occasional disturbance of this populous mousery by the visits of Owls. 1925 W. de la Mare Broomsticks 109 He never paid the smallest attention to mouse or mouse-hole or mousery. 2. A place where mice are bred or kept. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or breeding other animals > [noun] > place for keeping other animals froggery1737 toadery1763 fox-court1781 nopalery1783 beavery1877 mousery1920 wormery1952 1920 Amer. Naturalist 54 372 In the beginning of January an epidemic started in our mousery. Our mice were at that time housed in approximately seven hundred cages. 1935 A. Carrol Man the Unknown vi. 207 The mice belonging to one of the strains kept in the mousery of the Rockefeller Institute died of pneumonia in the proportion of fifty-two per cent while subjected to the standard diet. 1946 All Pets Mag. Sept. 64/3 I will try and give you a picture of my mousery. I use twelve..breeding units [etc.]. 1949 Amer. Small Stock Farmer Sept. 10 Weltytown Mousery. Breeders of white mice for laboratory and research. 1990 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 8 Aug. k1 Baby rats and mice are called kittens and are bred in ratteries or mouseries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1888 |
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