Shrew (disambiguation)

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Shrew may refer to:

Animals

• Shrew (family Soricidae)
• Treeshrew (order Scandentia), native to Southeast Asia
• Elephant shrew (family Macroscelididae), native to Africa
• Otter shrew (subfamily Potamogalinae), native to Africa
• West Indies shrew (genus Nesophontes), native to Caribbean islands (Extinct)

Literature

• Shrew (archetype), a difficult woman
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, in which the word refers to a difficult woman.

Other uses

• The Shrews, fictional characters in the animated series The Animals of Farthing Wood
• Shrew, a name originally proposed for the British fighter airplane Supermarine Spitfire
• The Killer Shrews, a 1959 science fiction film directed by Ray Kellogg and also featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.