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Noun field mouse has 2 senses
- vole, field mouse - 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
--1 is a kind of wood rat, wood-rat
--1 has particulars: | grasshopper mouse; pine vole, pine mouse, Pitymys pinetorum; meadow vole, meadow mouse, Microtus pennsylvaticus; water vole, Richardson vole, Microtus richardsoni; prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster; water vole, water rat, Arvicola amphibius; red-backed mouse, redback vole; phenacomys |
- field mouse, fieldmouse - any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
--2 is a kind of mouse
--2 is a member of Apodemus, genus Apodemus
--2 has particulars: European wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus
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