harvest mouse

/ˌhɑrvəst maʊs/
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Other forms: harvest mice

Definitions of harvest mouse
  1. noun
    any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
    synonyms: American harvest mouse
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    type of:
    New World mouse
    a variety of rodent
  2. noun
    small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
    synonyms: Micromyx minutus
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    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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