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Meaning of "shrewmouse" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHREWMOUSE

shrewmouse  [ˈʃruːˌmaʊs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHREWMOUSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shrewmouse is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHREWMOUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of shrewmouse in the English dictionary

The definition of shrewmouse in the dictionary is another name for the shrew, esp the common shrew.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHREWMOUSE


cat-and-mouse
ˈkætəndmaʊs
creepmouse
ˈkriːpˌmaʊs
dormouse
ˈdɔːˌmaʊs
fieldmouse
ˈfiːldˌmaʊs
flittermouse
ˈflɪtəˌmaʊs
mouse
maʊs
oncomouse
ˈɒŋkəʊˌmaʊs
rearmouse
ˈrɪəˌmaʊs
reremouse
ˈrɪəˌmaʊs
titmouse
ˈtɪtˌmaʊs
woodmouse
ˈwʊdˌmaʊs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHREWMOUSE

shred
shredded
shredder
shredding
shreddy
shredless
Shreveport
shrew
shrew mole
shrewd
shrewdie
shrewdly
shrewdness
shrewish
shrewishly
shrewishness
shrewlike
shrewmice

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHREWMOUSE

deer mouse
fat mouse
field mouse
harvest mouse
honey mouse
house mouse
jumping mouse
kangaroo mouse
marsupial mouse
meadow mouse
optical mouse
pampelmouse
play cat and mouse
pocket mouse
pompelmouse
sea mouse
smouse
the House
white-footed mouse
zamouse

Synonyms and antonyms of shrewmouse in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shrewmouse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHREWMOUSE

Find out the translation of shrewmouse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shrewmouse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shrewmouse» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

shrewmouse
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

musaraña
570 millions of speakers

English

shrewmouse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

shrewmouse
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

shrewmouse
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

shrewmouse
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

shrewmouse
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

shrewmouse
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

musaraigne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Shrewmouse
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spitzmaus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

shrewmouse
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

shrewmouse
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shrewmouse
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

shrewmouse
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

shrewmouse
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिवचिवाट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

shrewmouse
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

toporagno
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

shrewmouse
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

shrewmouse
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

shrewmouse
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

shrewmouse
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spits muis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

shrewmouse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shrewmouse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shrewmouse

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHREWMOUSE»

The term «shrewmouse» is used very little and occupies the 187.863 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHREWMOUSE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shrewmouse

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHREWMOUSE»

Discover the use of shrewmouse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shrewmouse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Gairdner's Shrewmouse
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
2
Reading for Our Time: 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' Revisited
We cannot take the shrewmouse trope as innocently “dead,” as one might with the term “instill” used for Mr. Stelling's goal of importing Latin grammar and Euclidean geometry into Tom Tulliver's mind. If literal language is possible, it is likely, ...
J. Hillis Miller, 2012
3
Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals
... Luzon Shrewrat; Northern Luzon Shrewmouse; North Luxaon Shrewmouse Crunomys melanius Rodentia - Muridae e Mindanao Shrewrat; Southern Shrewmouse; Southern Philippine Shrewmouse; Leyte Shrewrat Crunomys rabori syn.
Murray Wrobel, 2006
4
Droll Stories Volume II
By thegods! besure that itwas a splendidanimal, with the finest tail ofthe whole family, and was strutting about in thesun like a brave shrewmouse. It was proud of having beenin this world sincetheDeluge, according to letterspatent of ...
Balzac, Honore de, 2013
5
The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the ...
A superstition prevailed among the old leeches that a shrewmouse, on creeping over the limbs of man or the lower animals, was the cause of cramp and paralysis . To cure this, a hole was made with an auger in the bole of an ash tree, and a ...
John Lindley, Thomas Moore, 1866
6
Parley's Magazine
He was a water-shrewmouse, and very much like the common shrewmouse; but he was larger than the common shrewmouse, and altogethera much haudeomer animal. Wedding Rings and Ring Fingers. THE wedding ring is worn on the ...
‎1842
7
Gleanings in natural history: Third and last series. To ...
The following fact will also shew that the shrewmouse will feed upon frogs. The intelligent and observant foreman of the works in His Majesty': Parks, saw a shrew-mouse and a frog struggling together. The former had seized the latter by the ...
Edward Jesse, 1835
8
Ecocritical Shakespeare
Renaissance natural history and biblical exegesis looked beyond the English language in an attempt to understand the shrewmouse and its proper place within the order of things. In these texts, the shrewmouse continues to artfully elude ...
Dr Dan Brayton, Dr Lynne Bruckner, 2013
9
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children:
A shrew ash wasmadethus: intothe body ofthe tree a deep hole was bored with anauger, and a poor devoted shrewmouse wasthrust in alive, andplugged in,no doubt withseveral quaint incantations long since forgotten.” It is marvellous how ...
W. Houghton, 2014
10
Ten Thousand Wonderful Things
White, in his Natural History of Selborne, describes a shrewash as an ash whose twigs or branches, when gently appliedto the limbsof cattle,will immediately relieve thepains which abeast suffers from the running ofa shrewmouse overthepart ...
Edmund Fillingham King, 2014

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