Word Meanings - MYOSOTIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of plants. See Mouse-ear.

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• MOUSEFISH
  See FROGFISH
• MOUSEKIN
  A little mouse. Thackeray.
• MOUSE
  Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridæ. The common house mouse is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse sometimes
• MOUSETAIL
  A genus of ranunculaceous plants , in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.
• MOUSE-EAR
  The forget-me-not and other species of the same genus. A European species of hawkweed . Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and C. viscosum). -- Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb . All
• MOUSER
  1. A cat that catches mice. 2. One who pries about on the lookout for something.
• MOUSEHOLE
  A hole made by a mouse, for passage or abode, as in a wall; hence, a very small hole like that gnawed by a mouse.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• SEA MOUSE
  A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides. The dunlin.
• TITMOUSE
  Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit. Note: The blue titmouse , the marsh titmouse (P. palustris), the crested titmouse , the great titmouse , and
• FLITTERMOUSE
  A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
• DORMOUSE
  A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter. (more info) + E. mouse; or perh. changed fr. F. dormeuse,
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• FLICKERMOUSE
  See FLITTERMOUSE
• CAMOUSED
  Depressed; flattened. Though my nose be cammoused. B. Jonson
• TITTIMOUSE
  Titmouse.
• ZAMOUSE
  A West African buffalo having short horns depressed at the base, and large ears fringed internally with three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also short- horned buffalo, and bush cow.
• FAMOUSED
  Renowned. Shak.
• RATTLEMOUSE
  A bat. Puttenham.
• WATER MOUSE
  Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the