Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, belonging to, or resembling the shrews.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling or related to a shrew or shrew-mouse; of or pertaining to the Soricinæ or Soricidæ; soricoid in a narrow sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Shrew family (
Soricidæ ); like a shrew in form or habits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Of or relating to the
shrew family (Soricidae ); resembling a shrew in form or habits.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin sōricīnus, from sōrex, sōric-, shrew.]
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Latin soricinus, from sorex a shrew.
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Examples
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The skull and dentition of this animal are essentially soricine.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Outwardly it has the general soricine form, though much larger than the largest shrew.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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American sloth W 1883 OW mephitine skunk W soricine shrew 1781 - moschine musk deer c1878 OW OW talpine mole 1860 OW musteline weasel, mink tapirine tapir
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