Definition of Field mouse

1. Noun. 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.


2. Noun. Any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens.
Exact synonyms: Fieldmouse
Generic synonyms: Mouse
Group relationships: Apodemus, Genus Apodemus
Specialized synonyms: Apodemus Sylvaticus, European Wood Mouse

Definition of Field mouse

1. Noun. (North America) a small vole such as the meadow vole. ¹

2. Noun. (Eurasia, Africa) one of several species of mice in genus Apodemus. ¹

3. Noun. (South America) one of several species of mice in genus Akodon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Mouse

field identification
field intensity
field ion microscope
field judge
field lens
field line
field lines
field lupine
field magnet
field maple
field marigold
field marshal
field marshals
field mice
field mint
field mouse
field mouse-ear
field mushroom
field mustard
field of battle
field of consciousness
field of fire
field of fixation
field of force
field of honor
field of operation
field of operations
field of regard
field of study
field of view

Literary usage of Field mouse

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

1. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"Now the Town Mouse was asked by the field mouse to dine with him, ... And as the field mouse ate, drank, and was merry, he thought how rich his friend was, ..."

2. The Heart of Oak Books by Charles Eliot Norton (1902)
"THE field mouse AND THE TOWN MOUSE. A field mouse had a friend who lived in a house in ... Now the Town Mouse was asked by the field mouse to dine with him, ..."

3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"No, that was one of the little bone tableaux, a field mouse's dried bones splayed in an anatomically correct mystic hieroglyph. Marci hauled him away, ..."

4. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"I forgot to say that I am also called field mouse." "And it is because there are so many of your family and they require so much to eat that you do a great ..."

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