dor|mouse

dor|mouse
dor|mouse «DR MOWS», noun, plural -mice.
a small animal of the Old World that looks somewhat like a squirrel and somewhat like a mouse. It sleeps most of the winter. Dormice are rodents.
[origin uncertain; perhaps < dialectal dorm to sleep, doze (< French dormir < Latin dormīre) + mouse]

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