weasel

comadreja

Pequeño animal carnívoro de cuerpo largo y delgado, patas cortas y pelo suave.

En inglés sencillo: A small meat-eating animal with a long thin body, short legs, and soft fur.

• A weasel ran across the path.
• Weasels hunt mice and other small animals.
• The farmer found a weasel near the chicken shed.

Expresiones frecuentes: wild weasel, weasel fur, weasel hunts mice

rata, tipo rastrero

Persona que actúa con engaño y en quien no se puede confiar.

En inglés sencillo: A person who behaves dishonestly and cannot be trusted.

• That weasel lied to us.
• Don't trust him; he's a sneaky weasel.
• She called the man a weasel after he betrayed her.

Sinónimos: rat, sneak

Expresiones frecuentes: little weasel, sneaky weasel, lying weasel

comadreja común

La especie más pequeña de comadreja, de cuerpo largo y delgado, normalmente marrón por arriba y blanca por debajo.

En inglés sencillo: The smallest kind of this long, thin hunting animal, usually brown above and white underneath.

• The least weasel hunts small rodents.
• This weasel weighs less than most other members of its family.
• Scientists studied the weasel population in the grassland.

Sinónimos: least weasel, common weasel

Expresiones frecuentes: least weasel, weasel population, weasel habitat