dormouse

n. 榛睡鼠

发音

US /ˈdɔɹ.maʊs/
其它
UK /ˈdɔː.maʊs/

词形变化

dormice 复数 dormice

别名

doormouse

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.

  2. 2.

    Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.

    Glis glis (edible dormouse).

  3. 3.

    Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.

    Muscardinus avellanarius (hazel dormouse).

    英国
  4. 4.

    A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).

    比喻

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

rodent gnawer

下位词 2

lerot loir

相关短语

edible dormouse garden dormouse 花园睡鼠 fat dormouse hazel dormouse Japanese dormouse Oriental dormouse

词源

From Middle English dormowse, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse. The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.

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