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Definitions of shrew in various dictionaries:
noun - a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman
noun - small mouselike mammal with a long snout
Any of various small, chiefly insectivorous mammals of the family Soricidae, resembling a mouse but having a long, pointed snout and small eyes and ears.
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| Nagger |
| Chronic nag |
| Woman with a temper |
| Shakespearean title character |
| Shakespeare's Kate |
| Mouselike mammal |
| Nag |
| Hag |
| Nagging sort |
| Henpecking hag |
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| Mouselike mammal that needs "taming"(5) |
| The short-tailed species of this smallest land mammal produces a poison to kill mice |
| Since it's only 1 inch in length, "taming" the Etruscan type of this animal might be difficult |
| Varieties of this mole relative are among the world's smallest mammals |
| This small mouselike animal makes up the largest family among the insectivores |
| ...this small animal in a Shakespeare title |
| Shrew description |
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A shrew (family Soricidae) is a small mole-like mammal classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with West Indies shrews, treeshrews, otter shrews, or elephant shrews, which belong to different families or orders. * Although its external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent, as mice are. It is in fact a much closer relative of hedgehogs and moles, and related to rodents only in that both belong to the Boreoeutheria Magnorder (along with humans, monkeys, cats, dogs, horses, rhinos, cows, pigs, whales, bats and others). Shrews have sharp, spike-like teeth, not the familiar gnawing front incisor teeth of rodents. * Shrews are distributed almost worldwide: of the major tropical and temperate land masses, only New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand do not have any native shrews; in South America, shrews are relatively recent immigrants and are present only in the northern Andes. In terms of species diversity, the shrew famil |