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Field mouse   /fild maʊs/   Listen
Field mouse

noun
1.
Any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows.  Synonym: vole.
2.
Any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens.  Synonym: fieldmouse.



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"Field mouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... and he closed his heavy lids and thought that he would sleep... The stillness was so profound that he heard a little animal twittering somewhere near by under the snow. It made a small frightened cheep like a field mouse, and he wondered languidly if it were hurt. Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body. He tried in vain to roll over in the direction of the sound, and stretched his left ...
— Ethan Frome • Edith Wharton



Words linked to "Field mouse" :   mouse, meadow vole, Microtus richardsoni, water rat, European wood mouse, redback vole, Microtus pennsylvaticus, red-backed mouse, meadow mouse, Pitymys pinetorum, Microtus ochrogaster, field mouse-ear, wood rat, prairie vole, genus Apodemus, water vole, wood-rat, phenacomys, grasshopper mouse, pine vole, Apodemus, Apodemus sylvaticus, Arvicola amphibius, pine mouse, Richardson vole, vole, fieldmouse



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