Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sorex \So"rex\, n. [L., a shrew.] (Zo["o]l.)
   A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.

Source : WordNet®

Sorex
     n : type genus of the family Soricidae: shrews [syn: {genus
         Sorex}]