noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
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Notice the narrow snout extending beyond the mouth which helps it to seek out small rodents , reptiles and invertebrates.
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I told Thompson to alert all the guards on duty to be on the lookout for a small brown rodent .
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She worried away at her husband like a small and angry rat tackling an even smaller rodent .
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Deer mandible chewed by small rodents showing the elongated and parallel sided double grooves characteristic of rodent gnawing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birds and rodents live in the cavities.
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In the last few years remote places have revealed new deer, new primates and a whole host of rodents.
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Not all cultures have banished commensal rodents to the moral darkness.
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Notice the narrow snout extending beyond the mouth which helps it to seek out small rodents, reptiles and invertebrates.
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Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20-30 percent weight loss.
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The latter is a large rodent that has the run of the island.
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The well at her monastery was said to have repellent properties against rodents.
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This conjecture holds up across all the monkeys and across all rodents.