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dormice

dormice is the plural of dormouse.

Meaning of dormouse

Noun

dormouse (plural dormice)

  1. Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
    • For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war...1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237
    1. Glis glis (edible dormouse).
    2. (UK) Muscardinus avellanarius (hazel dormouse).
  2. (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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Questions about dormice

What is dormice the plural of?
Dormice is the plural of dormouse.

Words near dormice in the dictionary

  1. Dormer's bats
  2. dormer-window
  3. dormer-windows
  4. dormered
  5. dormers
  6. dormice
  7. dormie
  8. dormient
  9. dormies
  10. dormin
  11. Dorminey

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