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Meaning of "soricine" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SORICINE

From Latin sōricīnus, from sōrex a shrew.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SORICINE

ˈsɒrɪˌsaɪn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SORICINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Soricine is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SORICINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of soricine in the English dictionary

The definition of soricine in the dictionary is of, relating to, or resembling the shrews or the family to which they belong.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SORICINE

arcsin · arcsine · assign · calycine · colicine · cosine · countersign · coversine · culicine · ensign · haversine · inosine · limacine · picine · piscine · psittacine · sign · sine · syn · thylacine

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SORICINE

sorehon · Sorel · sorely · soreness · sorex · sorgho · sorghum · sorghum beer · sorgo · sori · soricident · sorites · soritic · soritical · sorn · sorner · soroban · Sorocaba · soroche

WORDS THAT END LIKE SORICINE

alternative medicine · biomedicine · Chinese medicine · conventional medicine · folk medicine · general medicine · geriatric medicine · herbal medicine · internal medicine · medicine · nuclear medicine · occupational medicine · patent medicine · physical medicine · preventive medicine · sports medicine · telemedicine · traditional medicine · tropical medicine · vaccine · veterinary medicine

Synonyms and antonyms of soricine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «soricine» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SORICINE

Find out the translation of soricine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of soricine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «soricine» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

soricine
1,325 millions of speakers
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soricine
570 millions of speakers
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soricine
510 millions of speakers
hi

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soricine
380 millions of speakers
ar

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soricine
280 millions of speakers
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soricine
278 millions of speakers
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soricine
270 millions of speakers
bn

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soricine
260 millions of speakers
fr

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soricine
220 millions of speakers
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Soricine
190 millions of speakers
de

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soricine
180 millions of speakers
ja

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soricine
130 millions of speakers
ko

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soricine
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Soricine
85 millions of speakers
vi

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soricine
80 millions of speakers
ta

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soricine
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सॉरीसिन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

soreksgillere ait
70 millions of speakers
it

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soricine
65 millions of speakers
pl

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soricine
50 millions of speakers
uk

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soricine
40 millions of speakers
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soricine
30 millions of speakers
el

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soricine
15 millions of speakers
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soricine
14 millions of speakers
sv

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soricine
10 millions of speakers
no

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soricine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of soricine

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SORICINE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of soricine
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about soricine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SORICINE»

Discover the use of soricine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to soricine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Advances in the Biology of Shrews II
Mixed Reproductive Characteristics in M.varius Myosorex character Affinity Vas sperm store soricine Penile spines crocidurine Acrosome size soricine/ crocidurine Oviduct isthmic crypts crocidurine Oviduct ampullary crypts soricine Cumulus ...
Joseph F. Merritt, Sara Churchfield, R. Hutterer, 2005
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Extreme Measures: The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals
An extended attempt to explore the possibility that the high rates in soricine shrews were artifactual (McNab 1991) concluded that those measurements were reasonable estimates of BMR, as did a similar study of Blarina brevicauda ( Dawson ...
Brian K. McNab, 2012
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General zoology, or, Systematic natural history, by G. Shaw ...
SORICINE MOUSE. Mus Soricinus. M. Cauda mediocri subpilosa, restro producto, aurkvlis orbicularis vestitis, velleris dorso flavicante griseo, ab- dornine albido. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 130. Yellowish grey Mouse, with long snout, round furred ...
George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, 1801
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Insectivora: with a stereotaxic atlas of the hedgehog brain
All the fundamental brain parts are the largest found in soricine shrews, except TEL, which is at the soricine level (1.0lx AvSn in N. anomalus) or slightly below ( 0.9 1X in N. fodiens). This is mainly because of the small structures in the main ...
Heinz Stephan, Georg Baron, Heiko D. Frahm, 1991
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V
The soricine shrews included in the 2002 IUCN Red List often belong to very rare and endemic species with restricted distribution and low population densities. Some of the threatened species are only known from the locality of their original ...
Bernhard Grzimek, Devra G. Kleiman, Neil Schlager, 2003
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General zoology: or Systematic natural history
SORICINE MOUSE. Mus Soricinus. M. cauda mediocri subpUosa, rostro producto, aurkulis orbiculatis vcstitis, velltris dorso flavkante griseo, ab- domine albido. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 130. Yellowish grey Mouse, with long snout, round furred ...
George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, 1801
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The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair ...
The ' Soricine mouse' has a nose a little extended; four toes on the fore feet, with a tubercle instead of a thumb; five toes on the hind feet; and round eafcs Covered with fur. The tail is of a middling length, and hairy. The colour on the upper part ...
‎1801
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Snow Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Examination of ...
The minute size of soricine shrews (less than 10 g) approaches the critical mass for maintaining endothermy during winter when much energy is lost as heat, putting the animal at risk and in need of accelerating its metabolic rate ( Mezhzherin, ...
H. G. Jones, 2001
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Mammals of Africa
Lifeespan of wildeliving M yosorex Varius in southern Africa is about 12*17 months (RoweeRowe & Meester 1985b) , very similar to that of soricine shrews ( Churchfield et a1. 1995). Suncus varilla can survive for 24—30 months (Lynch 1990, ...
Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, 2013
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A Guide to the Mammals of China
... H. Abe, J. Adachi, N. E. Dokuchaev, V. Haukisalmi, and M. C. Yoshida. 1997b. Phylogeny of Eurasian soricine shrews (Insectivora, Mammalia) inferred from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences. Zoological Science 14: 527–532.
Andrew T. Smith, Yan Xie, Robert S. Hoffmann, 2010

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SORICINE»

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Spelling their way to success
He missed "soricine", a word he's never had the chance to use since. "I was kind of disappointed when the national spelling bee was over for me at 13," he says. «BBC News, Jun 10»
REFERENCE
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