RED-BACKED MOUSE

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Meaning:

Any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America

Synonyms:

red-backed mouse; redback vole

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("red-backed mouse" is a kind of...):

field mouse; vole (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)

Holonyms ("red-backed mouse" is a member of...):

Clethrionomys; genus Clethrionomys (a genus of Cricetidae)

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