Definition of shrew in English:

shrew

noun ʃruːʃru

1A small insectivorous mammal resembling a mouse, with a long pointed snout and tiny eyes.
鼩鼱
Family Soricidae: many genera, in particular Sorex and Crocidura, and numerous species
Example sentencesExamples
- Some small mammals - various shrews, for example - possess a similar dental setup, with long, conical, forward-projecting teeth up front.
- The study found that while some species, including hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares, are generally declining in rural areas, their populations are rising in towns, cities and suburbs.
- The mammals were to remain small and individually insignificant - comparable to shrews, mice and rats of today - although doubtless very significant ecologically, for the 135 million years of the dinosaurs reign.
- Some mammal teeth from the Paleocene of France show characters of both bats and insectivores (the group including the hedgehogs, shrews and moles of today).
- One hundred eighty million years ago, a small, hairy animal resembling a shrew or a vole evolved a new way to care for her developing offspring.
- Among mammals, my annual visitors now include a few common smoky shrews, short-tailed shrews, red-backed voles, and, last but certainly not least in numbers, deer mice.
- Insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, and butterflies are a major part of their summer diet which also includes mammals such as mice, voles, young squirrels and rabbits, and shrews.
- Several small mammals live in the park - genets, shrews, hedgehogs and mongooses.
- But more important, the keen sense of smell of foxes, shrews, and coyotes means any meat left unguarded is fair game.
- From the largest elephant or hippo to the tiniest shrew, all specimens enter this small room, kept at a carefully controlled temperature of 26C and a humidity of 40 per cent.
- The theriodonts included both carnivores and herbivores, and various lineages correlated to late Cenozoic wolves, weasels, otters, rodents, and shrews.
- Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter.
- With the zoo's high densities of rodents (deer mice, white-footed mice, house mice, shrews, moles, and Norway rats), a relatively high density of rodent predators could be achieved.
- While bats are highly specialized for flight, they share anatomical characters with the Insectivora, the mammalian taxon that includes shrews and moles.
- There, in addition to star-nosed moles, he inevitably encounters shrews, voles, weasels, field mice, and the occasional snapping turtle.
- Suburban householders report large numbers of hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares.
- On March 6, we listed the Buena Vista Lake shrew, a tiny insect-eating mammal native to California's southern San Joaquin Valley, as endangered.
- With their wings hidden away, they can race through burrows or scrub with the alacrity of shrews and mice.
- Visitors to the Aquarium of the Lakes will be able to discover all about the secret world of otters, bats, water voles and shrews as part of Wildlife Activity Week which runs until Sunday, February 22.
- Destroys wildflower meadows, home to great crested newts, voles, field mice, shrews and rabbits.
2A bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman.
泼妇，悍妇
hold your nagging tongue, you miserable old shrew!
Example sentencesExamples
- Now, with this Ann doll, you can start training those young girls at an early age to become bigoted shrews!
- Socrates was married, you know, and his wife, Xanthippe, was a shrew.
- He was perhaps more in love with the study of philosophy than with his family - that his wife Xanthippe was shrew is a later tale.
- Legend allotted the role of shrew to his wife Xanthippe.
Synonyms
virago, dragon, termagant, vixen, cat, fishwife, witch, hellcat, she-devil, tartar, spitfire, hag, gorgon, harridan, fury, ogress, harpy
informal battleaxe, old bag, old bat, bitch
Scottish &amp Northern Irish informal targe
archaic scold
rare Xanthippe

Origin

Old English scrēawa, scrǣwa, of Germanic origin; related words in Germanic languages have senses such as 'dwarf', 'devil', or 'fox'.

Old English scrēawa is from a Germanic source related to words with senses such as ‘dwarf’, ‘devil’, or ‘fox’. No one knows for certain whether a bad-tempered woman is a shrew because people compared her to the mouse-like animal or whether the animal is a shrew because it was considered venomous and dangerous, like an aggressively assertive woman. When shrewd first appeared it shared these negative associations, but as connection with the shrew and belief in the shrew's evil weakened, it developed the sense ‘cunning’ and then the modern positive meaning ‘having sharp powers of judgement, astute’.

Rhymes

accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo

Definition of shrew in US English:

shrew

nounSHro͞oʃru

1A small insectivorous mammal resembling a mouse, with a long pointed snout and tiny eyes.
鼩鼱
Family Soricidae: many genera, in particular Sorex and Crocidura, and numerous species
Example sentencesExamples
- The mammals were to remain small and individually insignificant - comparable to shrews, mice and rats of today - although doubtless very significant ecologically, for the 135 million years of the dinosaurs reign.
- With the zoo's high densities of rodents (deer mice, white-footed mice, house mice, shrews, moles, and Norway rats), a relatively high density of rodent predators could be achieved.
- Some small mammals - various shrews, for example - possess a similar dental setup, with long, conical, forward-projecting teeth up front.
- Among mammals, my annual visitors now include a few common smoky shrews, short-tailed shrews, red-backed voles, and, last but certainly not least in numbers, deer mice.
- Several small mammals live in the park - genets, shrews, hedgehogs and mongooses.
- Destroys wildflower meadows, home to great crested newts, voles, field mice, shrews and rabbits.
- The study found that while some species, including hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares, are generally declining in rural areas, their populations are rising in towns, cities and suburbs.
- Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter.
- Visitors to the Aquarium of the Lakes will be able to discover all about the secret world of otters, bats, water voles and shrews as part of Wildlife Activity Week which runs until Sunday, February 22.
- But more important, the keen sense of smell of foxes, shrews, and coyotes means any meat left unguarded is fair game.
- On March 6, we listed the Buena Vista Lake shrew, a tiny insect-eating mammal native to California's southern San Joaquin Valley, as endangered.
- There, in addition to star-nosed moles, he inevitably encounters shrews, voles, weasels, field mice, and the occasional snapping turtle.
- Some mammal teeth from the Paleocene of France show characters of both bats and insectivores (the group including the hedgehogs, shrews and moles of today).
- While bats are highly specialized for flight, they share anatomical characters with the Insectivora, the mammalian taxon that includes shrews and moles.
- With their wings hidden away, they can race through burrows or scrub with the alacrity of shrews and mice.
- The theriodonts included both carnivores and herbivores, and various lineages correlated to late Cenozoic wolves, weasels, otters, rodents, and shrews.
- Insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, and butterflies are a major part of their summer diet which also includes mammals such as mice, voles, young squirrels and rabbits, and shrews.
- One hundred eighty million years ago, a small, hairy animal resembling a shrew or a vole evolved a new way to care for her developing offspring.
- Suburban householders report large numbers of hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares.
- From the largest elephant or hippo to the tiniest shrew, all specimens enter this small room, kept at a carefully controlled temperature of 26C and a humidity of 40 per cent.
2A bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman.
泼妇，悍妇
Example sentencesExamples
- Now, with this Ann doll, you can start training those young girls at an early age to become bigoted shrews!
- He was perhaps more in love with the study of philosophy than with his family - that his wife Xanthippe was shrew is a later tale.
- Socrates was married, you know, and his wife, Xanthippe, was a shrew.
- Legend allotted the role of shrew to his wife Xanthippe.
Synonyms
virago, dragon, termagant, vixen, cat, fishwife, witch, hellcat, she-devil, tartar, spitfire, hag, gorgon, harridan, fury, ogress, harpy

Origin

Old English scrēawa, scrǣwa, of Germanic origin; related words in Germanic languages have senses such as ‘dwarf’, ‘devil’, or ‘fox’.

单词	shrew
释义	Definition of shrew in English: shrew noun ʃruːʃru 1A small insectivorous mammal resembling a mouse, with a long pointed snout and tiny eyes. 鼩鼱 Family Soricidae: many genera, in particular Sorex and Crocidura, and numerous species Example sentencesExamples Some small mammals - various shrews, for example - possess a similar dental setup, with long, conical, forward-projecting teeth up front. The study found that while some species, including hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares, are generally declining in rural areas, their populations are rising in towns, cities and suburbs. The mammals were to remain small and individually insignificant - comparable to shrews, mice and rats of today - although doubtless very significant ecologically, for the 135 million years of the dinosaurs reign. Some mammal teeth from the Paleocene of France show characters of both bats and insectivores (the group including the hedgehogs, shrews and moles of today). One hundred eighty million years ago, a small, hairy animal resembling a shrew or a vole evolved a new way to care for her developing offspring. Among mammals, my annual visitors now include a few common smoky shrews, short-tailed shrews, red-backed voles, and, last but certainly not least in numbers, deer mice. Insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, and butterflies are a major part of their summer diet which also includes mammals such as mice, voles, young squirrels and rabbits, and shrews. Several small mammals live in the park - genets, shrews, hedgehogs and mongooses. But more important, the keen sense of smell of foxes, shrews, and coyotes means any meat left unguarded is fair game. From the largest elephant or hippo to the tiniest shrew, all specimens enter this small room, kept at a carefully controlled temperature of 26C and a humidity of 40 per cent. The theriodonts included both carnivores and herbivores, and various lineages correlated to late Cenozoic wolves, weasels, otters, rodents, and shrews. Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter. With the zoo's high densities of rodents (deer mice, white-footed mice, house mice, shrews, moles, and Norway rats), a relatively high density of rodent predators could be achieved. While bats are highly specialized for flight, they share anatomical characters with the Insectivora, the mammalian taxon that includes shrews and moles. There, in addition to star-nosed moles, he inevitably encounters shrews, voles, weasels, field mice, and the occasional snapping turtle. Suburban householders report large numbers of hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares. On March 6, we listed the Buena Vista Lake shrew, a tiny insect-eating mammal native to California's southern San Joaquin Valley, as endangered. With their wings hidden away, they can race through burrows or scrub with the alacrity of shrews and mice. Visitors to the Aquarium of the Lakes will be able to discover all about the secret world of otters, bats, water voles and shrews as part of Wildlife Activity Week which runs until Sunday, February 22. Destroys wildflower meadows, home to great crested newts, voles, field mice, shrews and rabbits. 2A bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman. 泼妇，悍妇 hold your nagging tongue, you miserable old shrew! Example sentencesExamples Now, with this Ann doll, you can start training those young girls at an early age to become bigoted shrews! Socrates was married, you know, and his wife, Xanthippe, was a shrew. He was perhaps more in love with the study of philosophy than with his family - that his wife Xanthippe was shrew is a later tale. Legend allotted the role of shrew to his wife Xanthippe. Synonyms virago, dragon, termagant, vixen, cat, fishwife, witch, hellcat, she-devil, tartar, spitfire, hag, gorgon, harridan, fury, ogress, harpy informal battleaxe, old bag, old bat, bitch Scottish &amp Northern Irish informal targe archaic scold rare Xanthippe Origin Old English scrēawa, scrǣwa, of Germanic origin; related words in Germanic languages have senses such as 'dwarf', 'devil', or 'fox'. Old English scrēawa is from a Germanic source related to words with senses such as ‘dwarf’, ‘devil’, or ‘fox’. No one knows for certain whether a bad-tempered woman is a shrew because people compared her to the mouse-like animal or whether the animal is a shrew because it was considered venomous and dangerous, like an aggressively assertive woman. When shrewd first appeared it shared these negative associations, but as connection with the shrew and belief in the shrew's evil weakened, it developed the sense ‘cunning’ and then the modern positive meaning ‘having sharp powers of judgement, astute’. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of shrew in US English: shrew nounSHro͞oʃru 1A small insectivorous mammal resembling a mouse, with a long pointed snout and tiny eyes. 鼩鼱 Family Soricidae: many genera, in particular Sorex and Crocidura, and numerous species Example sentencesExamples The mammals were to remain small and individually insignificant - comparable to shrews, mice and rats of today - although doubtless very significant ecologically, for the 135 million years of the dinosaurs reign. With the zoo's high densities of rodents (deer mice, white-footed mice, house mice, shrews, moles, and Norway rats), a relatively high density of rodent predators could be achieved. Some small mammals - various shrews, for example - possess a similar dental setup, with long, conical, forward-projecting teeth up front. Among mammals, my annual visitors now include a few common smoky shrews, short-tailed shrews, red-backed voles, and, last but certainly not least in numbers, deer mice. Several small mammals live in the park - genets, shrews, hedgehogs and mongooses. Destroys wildflower meadows, home to great crested newts, voles, field mice, shrews and rabbits. The study found that while some species, including hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares, are generally declining in rural areas, their populations are rising in towns, cities and suburbs. Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter. Visitors to the Aquarium of the Lakes will be able to discover all about the secret world of otters, bats, water voles and shrews as part of Wildlife Activity Week which runs until Sunday, February 22. But more important, the keen sense of smell of foxes, shrews, and coyotes means any meat left unguarded is fair game. On March 6, we listed the Buena Vista Lake shrew, a tiny insect-eating mammal native to California's southern San Joaquin Valley, as endangered. There, in addition to star-nosed moles, he inevitably encounters shrews, voles, weasels, field mice, and the occasional snapping turtle. Some mammal teeth from the Paleocene of France show characters of both bats and insectivores (the group including the hedgehogs, shrews and moles of today). While bats are highly specialized for flight, they share anatomical characters with the Insectivora, the mammalian taxon that includes shrews and moles. With their wings hidden away, they can race through burrows or scrub with the alacrity of shrews and mice. The theriodonts included both carnivores and herbivores, and various lineages correlated to late Cenozoic wolves, weasels, otters, rodents, and shrews. Insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, and butterflies are a major part of their summer diet which also includes mammals such as mice, voles, young squirrels and rabbits, and shrews. One hundred eighty million years ago, a small, hairy animal resembling a shrew or a vole evolved a new way to care for her developing offspring. Suburban householders report large numbers of hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares. From the largest elephant or hippo to the tiniest shrew, all specimens enter this small room, kept at a carefully controlled temperature of 26C and a humidity of 40 per cent. 2A bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman. 泼妇，悍妇 Example sentencesExamples Now, with this Ann doll, you can start training those young girls at an early age to become bigoted shrews! He was perhaps more in love with the study of philosophy than with his family - that his wife Xanthippe was shrew is a later tale. Socrates was married, you know, and his wife, Xanthippe, was a shrew. Legend allotted the role of shrew to his wife Xanthippe. Synonyms virago, dragon, termagant, vixen, cat, fishwife, witch, hellcat, she-devil, tartar, spitfire, hag, gorgon, harridan, fury, ogress, harpy Origin Old English scrēawa, scrǣwa, of Germanic origin; related words in Germanic languages have senses such as ‘dwarf’, ‘devil’, or ‘fox’.
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