lemming
Kelime Anlamı :
1. kuzey memleketlerine özgü bir çeşit iri kır faresi, yaban sıçanı.
2. yabani sıçan.
3. lemming.
4. yaban sıçanı.
5. yaban sıçan.
6. kuzey memleketlerine özgü bir çeşit iri kır faresi.
7. Lemmus lemmus.
Tanımlar :
1.
any of various small, thickset rodents, especially of the genus Lemmus, inhabiting northern regions and known for periodic mass migrations that sometimes end in drowning.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A small arctic and subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents.
2. any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.
2. any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. they are found in both hemispheres.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
A rodent quadruped of the family Muridæ, subfamily Arvicolinæ, and one of the genera Myodes, cuniculus, and Synaptomys (see these terms).
2. the north american lemmings, 8 or 10 species of which are now recognized, have been divided into two genera, Lemmus and Dicrostonyx, and the species once familiar as Myodes obensis is now Lemmus alascensis. the black-footed lemming, L. nigripes, is peculiar to st george island, Bering sea. the common northeastern species is D. hudsonius.
2. the north american lemmings, 8 or 10 species of which are now recognized, have been divided into two genera, Lemmus and Dicrostonyx, and the species once familiar as Myodes obensis is now Lemmus alascensis. the black-footed lemming, L. nigripes, is peculiar to st george island, Bering sea. the common northeastern species is D. hudsonius.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia