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pocket mouse

DEFINITIONS OF: pocket mouse

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n any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail

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Perognathus flavus, silky pocket mouse
small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico
Perognathus flavescens, plains pocket mouse
small rodent of open areas of United States plains states
Perognathus hispidus, hispid pocket mouse
large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States
Liomys irroratus, Mexican pocket mouse
large pocket mouse of Mexico
Type of:
pocket rat
any of various rodents with cheek pouches
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