English Dictionary

dormouse

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɔɹmaʊs/

名詞

イギリス英語 比喩的用法

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

日本語の意味

ヨーロッパを中心とした小型のげっ歯類、グリリダエ科に属する動物。 / 一部の分類学者によって Myoxidae や Muscardinidae とも呼ばれる。 / Glis glisとして知られ、可食性の種類も含む。

A dormouse slipped quietly across the windowsill before disappearing into the attic.

小さなヤマネが屋根裏に消える前に、静かに窓辺を渡った。

意味（1）

Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae; also called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by some taxonomists.

For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.

意味（2）

Glis glis, the edible dormouse

意味（3）

(UK) Muscardinus avellanarius, the hazel dormouse.

意味（4）

(figuratively) A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).

dormice （ plural ）