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harvest mouse

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: harvest mouse

1
n
any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
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n
small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: harvest mouse
1

n any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields

Synonyms:
American harvest mouse
Type of:
New World mouse
a variety of rodent
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n small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields

Synonyms:
Micromyx minutus
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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