water shrew

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   any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams

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Questions about water shrew

What does water shrew mean?

water shrew means "any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams".

Is water shrew a common word?

water 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.