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Definition of Lemming
1. Noun. Any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution.
Group relationships: Cricetidae, Family Cricetidae
Specialized synonyms: European Lemming, Lemmus Lemmus, Brown Lemming, Lemmus Trimucronatus, Gray Lemming, Grey Lemming, Red-backed Lemming, Pied Lemming, Southern Bog Lemming, Synaptomys Cooperi, Northern Bog Lemming, Synaptomys Borealis
Definition of Lemming
1. n. Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.
Definition of Lemming
1. Noun. Any of the small Arctic and Subarctic rodents of the tribe Lemmini. Three genera of vole are also commonly called '''lemmings'''. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lemming
1. a mouselike rodent [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lemming
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lemming
Literary usage of Lemming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1877)
"But as among my readers some may not be familiar with the lemming, a brief
description of ... There are several SJM-CÚ-S of lemming, easily recognizable, ..."
2. Scandinavian Adventures: During a Residence of Upwards of Twenty Years by Llewelyn Lloyd (1854)
"The lemming was an exception, ... differs somewhat in colour and size from the
Fjall- lemming, and this they call the Skogs—or Wood-lemming. ..."
3. The Naturalist in Norway: Or, Notes on the Wild Animals, Birds, Fishes, and by John Bowden (1869)
"Migration of the lemming from the North.—-Cause of the Migration.—The Migratory
Hordes. ... Pugnacity of the lemming.—Its Food.—A Plague of lemmings. ..."
4. Fur-bearing Animals in Nature and in Commerce by Henry Poland (1892)
"The lemming, which is only about 3 or 4 inches in length, ... The lemming inhabits
Norway and Sweden, and a similar species is found in the extreme North of ..."
5. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"For beside the lemming mouse and meadow mouse we find here also the ... In Indiana
Mr. AW Butler finds the lemming mice frequenting stony hillside pastures, ..."
6. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"For beside the lemming mouse and meadow mouse we find here also the ... In Indiana
Mr. AW Butler finds the lemming mice frequenting stony hillside pastures, ..."
7. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"The best known American species is the Hudson's Bay lemming (M. ... It resembles
in appearance and probably in habits the Norway lemming, and lives in the ..."
8. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1901)
"... in the White Mountains of New I Fai n | (.shirt-, a short distance west of
the base of Mt. Washington. Among these specimens is a small lemming Mouse, ..."
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