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Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.

Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. W. Flemming.

part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell. W. Flemming.

alled because originally stamped with the figure of a sable. -- Sable mouse (Zoöl.), the lemming.

the Southern United States, and southward to Chili; -- called also plume bird. -- Snowy lemming (Zoöl.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter. -- Snowy owl (Zoöl.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or N. nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe…