dormouse

«dormouse» in Mova's school dictionary: a small furry animal like a mouse with a long fluffy… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a dormouse, dormice)

meaning for a pupil

A dormouse is a small furry animal like a mouse with a long fluffy tail, which lives in woods and sleeps through the winter (hibernates). tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons in the UK and Europe, dormice are known for hibernating for months; they are rare and protected. In stories, the dormouse at the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice in Wonderland keeps falling asleep. Phrases: sleepy as a dormouse, hazel dormouse.

examples

• The dormouse sleeps all through the winter. tree →
• A dormouse has a fluffy tail. tree →
• Dormice eat hazelnuts and berries. tree →
• In Alice in Wonderland, the dormouse falls asleep at the tea party. tree →
• Dormice are rare in Britain. tree →
• The dormouse curled up into a tiny ball. tree →
• The dormouse, of course, was the biggest of all the creatures. tree →

note

Plural: dormice (like mouse, mice). A dormouse is a rodent but not a true mouse. Dormice are protected in the UK; it is against the law to disturb them.

In the corpora

• The hazel dormouse can hibernate for six months or more, after fattening up on hazelnuts and berries in autumn.
• At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is fast asleep and used as a cushion.
• «The Dormouse is asleep again,» says the Hatter, and he pours a little hot tea upon its nose.
• She walks off; looking back, she sees them trying to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot.
• Alice says they would have been ill; the Dormouse answers «So they were, very ill».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dormouse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.