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Definition of Meadow mouse

1. Noun. Widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meadow Mouse

Literary usage of Meadow mouse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"Similar to the meadow mouse in color but with peculiar skull, and light projecting front ... Smaller than the meadow mouse with very broad peculiar skull. ..."

2. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"Similar to the meadow mouse in color but with peculiar skull, and light projecting front ... Smaller than the meadow mouse with very broad peculiar skull. ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"The meadow mouse rarely eats grain except when the rigors of exceptional winters deprive it of green food. It then confines its appetite to what is found on ..."

4. California Mammals by Frank Stephens (1906)
"CALIFORNIA MEADOW-MOUSE. Upper and Lower Austral, 5, 9, 10, n, 12. 109. ... DESERT MEADOW-MOUSE. Lower Austral, 15. n3. Microtus mordax. ..."

5. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"A spoonful of poisoned wheat placed in the mouth of each burrow is widely used to combat them. 224. meadow mouse (Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord.) and prairie ..."

6. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the by David Starr Jordan (1878)
"A. riparius, Ord. meadow mouse. Fore claws not longer than hind claws; tail one-third length of head and body, or more. US; generally abundant. ..."

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