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Definition of Common shrew
1. Noun. Common American shrew.
Generic synonyms: Shrew, Shrewmouse
Group relationships: Genus Sorex, Sorex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Shrew
Literary usage of Common shrew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It was said to differ in having the tail longer than the body (without the head),
whereas in the common shrew the body (without the head) is longer than the ..."
2. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"[THE common shrew (Sorex araneus).] The Land Mouse, English. This is very like
a mouse, excepting that it has a long sharp nose, almost like that of the ..."
3. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"The common shrew (S. araneus, Fig. 366) is well known and generally distributed ;
it inhabits dry places, where it grubs about amongst the herbage with its ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"It resembles the common shrew, but is twice the size; the upper part of the body
black; ... JD Notes on the common shrew. — April 2. The common shrew (Sorex ..."
5. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"As in the common shrew, the young are blind, naked, and toothless when born,
somewhat suggestive of the incompletely finished young of some marsupials. ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"Insects and worms are the food of the common shrew. ... and the size of ita naked
ears aa >ur common shrew, but is nearly as large as our common Brown Sat, ..."
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