New World mouse

/nu wərld maʊs/
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Definitions of New World mouse
  1. noun
    a variety of rodent
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    types:
    American harvest mouse, harvest mouse
    any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
    type of:
    gnawer, rodent
    relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
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