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Definition of Lemmings
1. lemming [n] - See also: lemming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lemmings
Literary usage of Lemmings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... and horse, as it would be to prove it to have been arctic from the associated
musk sheep, lemmings, and reindeer. It was probably a varying climate, ..."
2. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"Larger than the woodland jumping mouse. Range. Quebec and Ontario. RATS, MICE
AND lemmings (Family ..."
3. Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of by Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson (1833)
"... America—The Foxes—The Beaver—The Musk-rat—Meadow Mice and lemmings—The Rocky
Mountain Neotoma—The American Fieldmouse—The Marmots—The Squirrel Tribe—The ..."
4. The Naturalist in Norway: Or, Notes on the Wild Animals, Birds, Fishes, and by John Bowden (1869)
"The Migratory Hordes.—What becomes of them.— Grimalkin and the lemmings. ...
A Plague of lemmings.—Singular Superstitions.—Opinions of Ancient Writers. ..."
5. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and by Georg Hartwig (1869)
"The lemmings.—Their Migrations and Enemies.—Arctic Anátidas.—The Snow-bunting.— The
Lapland Bunting.—The Sea-eagle.—Drowned by a Dolphin. ..."
6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1841)
"... who speaks of lemmings. According to him, Wormius has devoted a monograph to
them, in which he makes an effort to prove that they full from the clouds. ..."
7. The Last of the Arctic Voyages: Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H. M by Edward Belcher, John Richardson, Richard Owen, Thomas Bell, John William Salter, Lovell Reeve (1855)
"lemmings.—Star Bluff. —Return to the Ship. June 3.—THIS being our third visit to
this station, it afforded a good rating position for the chronometers, ..."
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