dormice
noun
Meaning
- Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae; also called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by some taxonomists.
- Glis glis, the edible dormouse
- Muscardinus avellanarius, the hazel dormouse.
- 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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