NEW WORLD MOUSE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A variety of rodent

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("New World mouse" is a kind of...):

gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New World mouse"):

American harvest mouse; harvest mouse (any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields)

Holonyms ("New World mouse" is a member of...):

Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)

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