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1. 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

↑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 rat, ↑Arvicola amphibius, ↑red-backed mouse, ↑redback vole, ↑phenacomys

2. any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens

a. : any mouse of the New World genus Microtus

b. : any mouse of the Old World genus Apodemus

any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.

[1570-80]

field mouse,

any variety of mouse living in fields and meadows; meadow mouse.

n. a dark brown mouse with a long tail and large eyes. Also called wood mouse. ● Genus Apodemus, family Muridae: several species, in particular the widespread A. sylvaticus

noun, pl ⋯ mice [count]

: a type of mouse that lives in open fields