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pine vole

DEFINITIONS OF: pine vole

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n short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States

Synonyms:
Pitymys pinetorum, pine mouse
Type of:
field mouse, vole
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
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