Definitions

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  • adjective having ears like a mouse's

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Examples

  • She's worn a mouse-eared helmet in a music video before, but this time, Playmate ears are a bit more her style.

    PHOTOS: Rihanna's Racy New 'S&M' Pics Jordan Zakarin 2011

  • She's worn a mouse-eared helmet in a music video before, but this time, Playmate ears are a bit more her style.

    PHOTOS: Rihanna's Racy New 'S&M' Pics Jordan Zakarin 2011

  • At Disney World, a shower of red, white and blue confetti fluttered down on hundreds of similarly colored mouse-eared balloons interspersed with football-shaped balloons in Steelers black and gold.

    Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes Victory Parade at Magic Kingdom | The Disney Blog 2009

  • The researchers first tested the ability of four greater mouse-eared bats to distinguish between the echolocation calls of other bats.

    Bats Recognize The Individual Voices Of Other Bats | Impact Lab 2009

  • Another new vesper bat, this time a mouse-eared bat, is in the ‘100 years’ club, but it seems unlikely to be a valid species.

    The first new European mammal in 100 years? You must be joking Darren Naish 2006

  • Another new vesper bat, this time a mouse-eared bat, is in the ‘100 years’ club, but it seems unlikely to be a valid species.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The Moluccan mouse-eared bat (Myotis stalkeri) is endangered, whereas the dusky pademelon (Thylogale bruinii), and brown-bearded sheathtail bat (Taphozous achates) are considered vulnerable.

    Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests 2008

  • These are all arid land animals found on the mountain plateau top, while in the sheltered valleys below are varieties of frogs, the pale field rat Rattus tunneyi and largefooted mouse-eared bat Myotis adversus which are damp environment species.

    Purnululu National Park, Australia 2008

  • The underground galleries hold ten species of wintering bat in reasonable numbers including the rare and Shreiber's bat Miniopterus schreibersi, lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros (VU), long-fingered bat Myotis capaccinii (VU), greater mouse-eared bat M. myotis, Savi's pipistrelle Pipistrellus savii and western barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus (VU).

    Skocjan Caves Regional Park, Slovenia 2008

  • We all had a good time though, including me, although I was out-voted on most decisions, such as the decision to buy the mouse-eared hats with our names embroidered on them that we had to wear all day.

    Read It! j-ku 2007

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