dormouse

English Thesaurus

1. small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gnawer, rodent,
definition	:	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	glis glis, loir,
definition	:	large European dormouse (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	hazel mouse, muscardinus avellanarius,
definition	:	a variety of dormouse (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	lerot,
definition	:	dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family gliridae, gliridae,
definition	:	dormice and other Old World forms (noun.animal)