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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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