Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of dormouse.

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  • noun Plural form of dormouse.

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Examples

  • The prediction comes as campaigners paint a bleak future for native species such as dormice and bluebells.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • This means that in terms of protecting and enhancing biodiversity they do a far less effective job than larger, contiguous woodlands; for instance, while birds can easily fly, ground-based mammals, such as dormice and hedgehogs, aren't able to negotiate their way across roads and farmland so easily.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • Ironically, the ultra-modern solar-powered weasel would appear to be some form of very powerful and incomprehensible magic to those actual denizens of the Stone Age who had to make do with napped-flint powered chickens and crude wooden pedals to drive their dormice.

    The Contrivances - A History (Part One) David Hadley 2009

  • In the distance stood Vesuvius, still a sleeping volcano in those days, its hills green with pine and beech trees, its orchards overflowing with apples and with grapes that made wine good enough for a senators table; its soil teeming with hares, dormice, and moles that the locals favored as hors doeuvres.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Ironically, the ultra-modern solar-powered weasel would appear to be some form of very powerful and incomprehensible magic to those actual denizens of the Stone Age who had to make do with napped-flint powered chickens and crude wooden pedals to drive their dormice.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David Hadley 2009

  • But fifteen minutes later Sarah Montague introduced a further segment on dormice by saying their decline had been partly due to "cool summers".

    OPEN THREAD.. 2009

  • In the distance stood Vesuvius, still a sleeping volcano in those days, its hills green with pine and beech trees, its orchards overflowing with apples and with grapes that made wine good enough for a senators table; its soil teeming with hares, dormice, and moles that the locals favored as hors doeuvres.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • In the distance stood Vesuvius, still a sleeping volcano in those days, its hills green with pine and beech trees, its orchards overflowing with apples and with grapes that made wine good enough for a senators table; its soil teeming with hares, dormice, and moles that the locals favored as hors doeuvres.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Social dormice may want to rely on a colleague, but clinging on to allies won't win any accolades from the bosses.

    Jo Bryant: Office Christmas Parties: An Etiquette Minefield 2009

  • In the distance stood Vesuvius, still a sleeping volcano in those days, its hills green with pine and beech trees, its orchards overflowing with apples and with grapes that made wine good enough for a senators table; its soil teeming with hares, dormice, and moles that the locals favored as hors doeuvres.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

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