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FIELDMOUSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: fieldmice   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens

Synonyms:

field mouse; fieldmouse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fieldmouse" is a kind of...):

mouse (any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fieldmouse"):

Apodemus sylvaticus; European wood mouse (nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens)

Holonyms ("fieldmouse" is a member of...):

Apodemus; genus Apodemus (Old World field mice)

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