lemmings

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of lemming.
  lemming

  noun

  any of various small, mouselike rodents of several genera including Lemmus, Myopus, and Dicrostonyx, of far northern regions, as L. lemmus, of Norway, Sweden, etc., noted for periodic mass migrations that sometimes involve crossing bodies of water. Incidental drownings that have occurred during such passage gave rise to the myth of mass suicides among supposedly frenzied lemmings jumping from cliffs into the sea.

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lemmings

But there was no fountain of youth back then, Brenner noted, and the latest claims of its existence are sure to ultimately disappoint the long lines of lemmings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2024

The forbidding frozen wilderness of the high Arctic tundra is the natural home of the snowy owl, a great predator perfectly adapted to hunting its primary food source, lemmings.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

They also found evidence of coral, ants, fleas and lemmings.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 7, 2022

In some parts of the Arctic, thinning ice is already reducing the number of boom years for lemmings.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

Of this she was sure; she had often seen the dogs, foxes, and children hop and jump after lemmings in this same laughable way.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

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