field mouse

DEFINITIONS OF: field mouse

Types:: Apodemus sylvaticus, European wood mouse
nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens

Type of:: mouse
any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails

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insectivorous mouse of western North America; Pitymys pinetorum, pine mouse, pine vole
short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States; Microtus pennsylvaticus, meadow mouse, meadow vole
widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada; Microtus richardsoni, Richardson vole, water vole
of western North America; Microtus ochrogaster, prairie vole
typical vole of the extended prairie region of central United States and southern Canada; Arvicola amphibius, water rat, water vole
common large Eurasian vole; red-backed mouse, redback vole
any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America; phenacomys
any of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States

Type of:: wood rat, wood-rat
any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

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