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PIED LEMMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pied lemming" is a kind of...):
lemming (any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pied lemming"):
Dicrostonyx hudsonius; Hudson bay collared lemming (of northern Canada)
Holonyms ("pied lemming" is a member of...):
Dicrostonyx; genus Dicrostonyx (pied lemmings)
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