dormouse
IPA: dˈɔrmaʊs
noun
- Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae; also called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by some taxonomists.
- Glis glis, the edible dormouse
- (UK) Muscardinus avellanarius, the hazel dormouse.
- (figuratively) A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).
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Examples of "dormouse" in Sentences
- Even the Dormouse had some of that.
- He has a contract with the Dormouse.
- Also hazel dormouse has been observed.
- Are you thinking of the Spiny Dormouse
- In it, the Dormouse sang it at the tea party.
- The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, and The Dormouse.
- They also try stuffing the Dormouse into a teapot.
- In it, the Dormouse drowsily recited it at the tea party.
- The Hatter is interrupted in his recitation by the Dormouse.
- The word secondarily refers to a hibernating rodent, the edible dormouse.