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What is a dormouse?

What is a dormouse? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae; also called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by some taxonomists.
  2. Glis glis, the edible dormouse
  3. (Britain) Muscardinus avellanarius, the hazel dormouse.
  4. (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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Here you can learn many fascinating details about the tradition of dormouse hunting.
It has several cousins on the continent, including the edible dormouse, the garden dormouse and the forest dormouse.
The garden dormouse is notorious for finding its way into vehicles.
To follow populations of the hazel dormouse correctly, the detection effort must remain constant in time and between study sites.
The previous governor, George Pataki, had similar ideas, but he pursued them with the audacity of a dormouse.
Still other families of the Myomorpha include the dormouse, jumping mouse, and jerboa.

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