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Field mouse

noun

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.

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

... Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire. As it came nearer the Tin Woodman saw that running before the beast was a little gray field mouse, and although he had no heart he knew it was wrong for the Wildcat to try to kill ...

— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... the most muscular of all mice of the same size. I have had at the same time in confinement an English mouse (albino), a Bengal field mouse, and house mice from Simla of another species, and none of them could show equal activity. I use, for the purpose of taming mice, a glass fish-globe, out of which none of the other mice could get, ...

— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

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