short-tailed shrew

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   North American shrew with tail less than half its body length

   SynonymsBlarina brevicauda

   Broadershrew

   Part ofBlarina

Questions about short-tailed shrew

What does short-tailed shrew mean?

short-tailed shrew means "North American shrew with tail less than half its body length".

What is another word for short-tailed shrew?

Close synonyms include Blarina brevicauda. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is short-tailed shrew a common word?

short-tailed shrew 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.