Definition of House mouse

1. Noun. Brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide.

Exact synonyms: Mus Musculus
Generic synonyms: Mouse
Group relationships: Genus Mus, Mus

Definition of House mouse

1. Noun. The universally common mouse of the species ''Mus musculus''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of House Mouse

house divided
house door
house doors
house finch
house floor
house floors
house frau
house guest
house husband
house husbands
house keeper
house martin
house martins
house master
house mice
house mouse
house music
house number
house numbers
house of God
house of accommodation
house of cards
house of correction
house of detention
house of ill repute
house of prayer
house of worship

Literary usage of House mouse

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

1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE house mouse Teacher's Story + Somewhere in the darkness a clock strikes two; And there is no sound in th>j sad old house, But the long veranda dripping ..."

2. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"Common in BEA, coming into the houses, and acting like a house mouse, ... Body only slightly larger than that of a house mouse, but tail at least a third ..."

3. The Nursery by Fanny P Seaverns, John L. Shorey (Firm (1872)
"... you dear little things. THE Doc Boz. THE HOUSE-MOUSE AND THE WOOD-MOUSE. You all know the house-mouse that runs about in our closets, ..."

4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1880)
"This disease could never be produced in the house-mouse unless its blood was ... and the house-mouse when inoculated from an infected field-mouse then ..."

5. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"SIZE.—Head and body, 3-* inches; tail, nearly 4 inches. NO. 367. MUS NITIDULUS. The Shiny Little house mouse of Pegu. HABITAT. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The first sub-family contains the various rats (qv), the house-mouse ... The house-mouse has been a denizen of men's habitations probably ever since ..."

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