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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/#x1)
- A dormouse has a fluffy tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/#x2)
- Dormice eat hazelnuts and berries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/#x3)
- In Alice in Wonderland, the dormouse falls asleep at the tea party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/#x4)
- Dormice are rare in Britain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/#x5)
- The dormouse curled up into a tiny ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/#x6)
- The dormouse, of course, was the biggest of all the creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/7/)
- [At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is fast asleep and used as a cushion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/12/)
- [«The Dormouse is asleep again,» says the Hatter, and he pours a little hot tea upon its nose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/22/)
- [She walks off; looking back, she sees them trying to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/11/)
- [Alice says they would have been ill; the Dormouse answers «So they were, very ill».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dormouse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormouse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.