| 单词 | shrewmouse |
| 释义 | shrewmouse (once / 472773 pages) n WORD FAMILY shrewmouse: shrewmice USAGE EXAMPLESWhen young, Jeff would challenge himself to define a word, chasing it down through the dictionary: Fishwife to shrew to shrewmouse to insectivorous to vorous. Los Angeles Times(Apr 29, 2016) Among others was an extremely thin little shrewmouse, dainty and devilish, with steely eyes and thin pinched lips turning inward. Sudermann, Hermann, The Song of Songs(2011) He was a water-shrewmouse, 3 and very much like the common shrewmouse that we often find lying dead in lanes and pathways. Waring, George, The Squirrels and other animals—Il...(2010) n small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles Syn|Hypo|Hyper shrew Sorex araneus, common shrew common American shrew Sorex cinereus, masked shrewcommonest shrew of moist habitats in North America Blarina brevicauda, short-tailed shrewNorth American shrew with tail less than half its body length water shrewany of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams Cryptotis parva, least shrewsmall brown shrew of grassy regions of eastern United States American water shrew, Sorex palustriswater shrew of North America European water shrew, Neomys fodienswidely distributed Old World water shrew Mediterranean water shrew, Neomys anomalusa type of water shrew insectivore small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals |
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