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Arctic mouse-ears

Arctic mouse-ears is the plural of Arctic mouse-ear.

Meaning of Arctic mouse-ear

Noun

Arctic mouse-ear (plural Arctic mouse-ears)

  1. A perennial herb, Cerastium arcticum, growing in parts of the Arctic.
    • Dainty Arctic mouse ears with their distinctive double-lobed petals speckle the heath close by my own roost, paper-thin flowers springing from a tangled mat of foliage that forms little islands in the grass.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 154

Questions about Arctic mouse-ears

What is Arctic mouse-ears the plural of?
Arctic mouse-ears is the plural of Arctic mouse-ear.

Words near Arctic mouse-ears in the dictionary

  1. Arctic lamprey
  2. Arctic lampreys
  3. Arctic loon
  4. Arctic loons
  5. Arctic mouse-ear
  6. Arctic mouse-ears
  7. Arctic Ocean
  8. arctic owl
  9. arctic poppies
  10. arctic poppy
  11. arctic raspberries

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