pied lemming

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   North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged

   Broaderlemming

   NarrowerHudson bay collared lemming

   Part ofDicrostonyx

Questions about pied lemming

What does pied lemming mean?

pied lemming means "North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged".

Is pied lemming a common word?

pied lemming is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.