lemming

Etymology
From and, from , , , perhaps from. Sense 2 derives from a longstanding myth that they exhibit so much herd mentality that populations jump off cliffs to their deaths together.



Noun

 * 1) A small Arctic and Subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents.
 * 2)  Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.
 * 1)  Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.

Derived terms

 * ( spp.)
 * collared lemmings ( spp.)
 * steppe lemmings
 * ( spp.)
 * wood lemmings
 * ( spp.)

Translations

 * Bulgarian: леминг
 * Catalan: lèmming
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: гувчеԓкаԓгын
 * Czech:
 * Danish: lemming
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: lemo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: læmingi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ლემინგები
 * German:
 * Greenlandic: avinngaq, maajooq, narlumukaaq
 * Hawaiian: ʻawinaka
 * Hebrew: לֵמוּס
 * Icelandic: læmingi
 * Ido:
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᕕᙵᖅ
 * Japanese: レミング, 旅鼠
 * Kazakh: лемминг
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: лемминг
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: хөвхөлжин
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: lemen
 * Old Norse: lómundr
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, lémingue
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: léming
 * Southern Sami: sluemege, luemege
 * Spanish: lemming
 * Swedish:
 * Tibetan: འགྲུལ་བྱི།


 * Danish: lemming
 * Finnish: laumasielu,
 * French:
 * Polish: ,

Etymology
From and, from , , , perhaps from.

Noun

 * 1) lemming rodent

Etymology
From and, from , , , perhaps from.

Etymology
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Etymology
From and, from , , , perhaps from.

Noun

 * 1) lemming rodent