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meadow mouse
noun
- any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
meadow mouse
noun
- another name for vole 1
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Origin of meadow mouse1
Example Sentences
“Do you know how many babies just one of these meadow mice have in a year?†he demanded.
Unlike its relatives, the short-eared owl does some hunting by daylight, especially in cloudy weather, and like the marsh hawk it prefers to live in grassy, marshy places frequented by meadow mice.
Naturalists have long been aware that only one of our common Hawks habitually preys upon poultry while most of our species, by feeding largely on meadow mice, are actually beneficial.
When the shuffling hooves of one disturbed a meadow mouse that leaped in wild panic toward the stump, Frosty had only to move aside in order to catch it.
The Pennsylvania meadow mouse is an abundant mammal along the Alaska Highway.
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