hazel dormouse

English

Noun

hazel dormouse (plural hazel dormice)

  1. A small nocturnal dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, with golden-brown fur and large black eyes.
    • 2018 June 15, The Guardian‎:
      A volunteer checks a rare hazel dormouse as 20 breeding pairs were released into an undisclosed woodland location near Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, UK.
    • 2022 February 23, Daisy Chapman-Chamberlain, “Ground-breaking rail innovation goes international”, in RAIL, number 951, page 35:
      This project involves construction of a railway crossing for wild hazel dormice on the Furness line (Lancashire), in a bid to save the endangered species from extinction, and it will be the first of its kind on the railway.

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