"shrew" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: disagreeable woman, unpleasant woman - a woman who is an unpleasant person
subtypes:
- virago - a noisy or scolding or domineering woman
- yenta - (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant
same as: termagant
is a type of: insectivore - small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
subtypes:
- common shrew, sorex araneus - common American shrew
- masked shrew, sorex cinereus - commonest shrew of moist habitats in North America
- blarina brevicauda, short-tailed shrew - North American shrew with tail less than half its body length
- water shrew - any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams
- cryptotis parva, least shrew - small brown shrew of grassy regions of eastern United States
belongs to: family soricidae, soricidae - shrews

same as: shrewmouse