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common shrew

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Noun1.common shrew - common American shrewcommon shrew - common American shrew                
shrewmouse, shrew - small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles
genus Sorex, Sorex - type genus of the family Soricidae: shrews


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This bacterium was isolated from 1 environmental sample from the carrot-peeling line in the fresh-food processing plant, from spoiled carrots, from fluid draining from spoiled carrots, and from a pooled sample of common shrew (Sorex araneus) intestines from 1 farm.
In an area fringed with the creamy white splendour of hundreds of marsh helleborines, budding grass of parnassus and marsh orchids long past their best, the tiny common shrew was going about its business, oblivious to the "giants" that trod only inches away Most readers will be familiar with this belligerent little soul, often heard squabbling invisible in the bleached winter grass of a dying winter each March as they stake out breeding territories.
Nine mammals made the list: African savannah elephant, orangutan, nine-banded armadillo, domestic cat, European hedgehog, rabbit, guinea pig, lesser hedgehog tenrec, and European common shrew.
 
 
 
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