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noun

field mouse, fieldmouse n.

(Zool.) Any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabing woods and fields and gardens.

(Zool.) Any mouse inhabiting fields, as the campagnol and the deer mouse. See Campagnol, and Deer mouse.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Field mouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... away to profound forest depths, to the awful penetralia of the bison and the tiger. Even here everything is strange to me; the common native has become a Bheel, the sparrowhawk an eagle, the grass of the field a vast, reedy growth in which an elephant becomes a mere field mouse. Out of the leaves come strange bird-notes, a strange silence broods over us; it is broken by strange rustlings and cries; it closes over us again strangely. Nature swoons in its glory of sunshine and weird music; it has put forth its powers in colossal timber and howling beasts of ...

— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

... strange," remarked the boy, affecting not to hear the commencement of another question; "for I could be sworn that not a squirrel or field mouse crosses my path but that I mark him down. But I may not linger thus; the hour of our studies is already here. I wish you good ...

— The Secret Chamber at Chad • Evelyn Everett-Green

Words linked to "Field mouse" : Pitymys pinetorum, Microtus ochrogaster, wood rat, water vole, Richardson vole, genus Apodemus, prairie vole, wood-rat, meadow vole, pine mouse, Apodemus, field mouse-ear, mouse, European wood mouse, phenacomys