[
UK
/dˈɔːmaʊs/
]
[ US /ˈdɔɹˌmaʊs/ ]
[ US /ˈdɔɹˌmaʊs/ ]
NOUN
- small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather
How To Use dormouse In A Sentence
- The dormouse is a shy, nocturnal creature.
- The vole, which is not a rat, is a goodly sight, and the smooth round dormouse (or sleep-mouse, as the children call it) is a favourite gift imprisoned in an old tea-pot. John Keble's Parishes
- The dormouse is a shy, nocturnal creature.
- How many of our visitors do you imagine will have had any experience of roast dormouse ? CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
- That maidenlike friend of yours has taken possession of my bed, after your mother's routing me up as if I had been a stoat or a dormouse. The Buccaneer A Tale
- Ok, read me the story about the dormouse now.
- But the dormouse went fussing about anyway, straightening and re-arranging.
- The dormouse in Britain may face extinction if ancient woodland continues to disappear.
- There is something of the dormouse in him still," said the dark-haired woman. STARDUST
- The decline of the dormouse has mirrored the loss of ancient forests.