Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Muridæ, subfamily Arvicolinæ, including the lemmings and some other arvicolines.
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- noun lemmings
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Examples
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In unproductive snowbeds, which are favored winter habitats of the lemming Lemmus lemmus, between 90 and 100% of the moss and graminoids present during winter may have been removed.
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Seasonal change of the habitat in the Norwegian lemming, Lemmus lemmus.
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In peak population years, the seasonal habitat shifts of the Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus) may become more long-distance mass movements [79].
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Seasonal change of the habitat in the Norwegian lemming, Lemmus lemmus.
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New data on the nutrition of Norwegian lemming (Lemmus lemmus).
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New data on the nutrition of Norwegian lemming (Lemmus lemmus).
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Seasonal change of the habitat in the Norwegian lemming, Lemmus lemmus.
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Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.)
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Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.)
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Norwegian Lemming (Myodes lemmus), and another species of the same family called by Pallas Myodes torquatus (by Hensel, Misothermus torquatus) -- a still more arctic quadruped, found by Parry in latitude 82 degrees, and which never strays farther south than the northern borders of the woody region.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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