Zool. [a. F. lérot, f. loir, repr. pop.L. glĭr-em (L. glīr-em, glīs) dormouse.] The garden dormouse (Myoxus nitela).
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., VI. i. (1862), I. 453. The middle [Dormouse], which he [Buffon] calls the Lerot.
1849. Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia, IV. 29. The Garden Dormouse, or Lerot…. The greater Dormouse of Shaw.
