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Answer for the clue "Cousin of a lemming ", 4 letters:
vole

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828, short for vole-mouse (1805, in an Orkneys book), literally "field-mouse," with first element probably from Old Norse völlr "field," from Proto-Germanic *walthuz (cognates: Icelandic völlr , Swedish vall "field," Old English weald ; see wold ).

Usage examples of vole.

Vole felt the malady that plagued all transplanted Earthlings, and which the Etherian music magnified, of natal vertigo-the feeling that the race of man had fallen off the Earth and was now at the mercy of influences for which no preparation had ever been made.

Raif recognized the pelts of lemmings, meadow voles and giant hispid rats all layered into stripes.

Squirrels, Marmots, Jerboas, Mole-Rats, Rats, Mice, Voles, Porcupines, and Hares.

Wolf had discovered an abundance of small creatures, voles, lemmings, and pikas, and had gone off to hunt and explore.

It was a peaceful spot, where few would pass save a grazing sheep or two, a meadow pipit, a foraging vole.

The small furry creatures were an example that Ayla noticed, although during the freezing season, the mice, dormice, voles, susliks, and hamsters were seldom seen, except when she broke through a nest for the vegetable foods they had stored.

If the vole tried to splash around the edge, the way Chex had, he would be half floating, because his little legs were too short to achieve good purchase beneath the water.

Bria and Marrow, these are my friends in Xanth normal: Chex Centaur, Volney Vole, and Latia Curse Fiend.

He walked out of the room, turned, and went down the hall, to the old fire door that faced an alley coman alley now littered with the bodies of those who chose to follow Sister Voleta.

He held the vole in his left hand as he scribed on the soil with the athame in his right.

While he concentrated on the picture of the sword, Richard was vaguely aware of the chirps and clicks of bugs, the low, steady croaks of frogs, and the rustling of mice and voles among the dry debris of the forest floor.

When mice, voles, and velvety-furred shrews, who were used to evading foxes, scurried into holes burrowed just below the surface, Wolf chased gerbils, hamsters, and long-eared, prickly hedgehogs.

And meanwhile there was a sharp rise in the types of rodents, like voles and field mice, able to eat grass seeds.

Squirming through nests of voles and mice, under tree roots for hibernating newts and frogs, and darting after small birds too chilled and hungry to flee, the ravaging horde of eight or ten small white weasels closed in.

And these communities get larger after snakes, the local top predator of voles, go into hibernation.