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VOLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
field mouse; vole
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vole" is a kind of...):
wood-rat; wood rat (any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vole"):
grasshopper mouse (insectivorous mouse of western North America)
pine mouse; pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum (short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States)
meadow mouse; meadow vole; Microtus pennsylvaticus (widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada)
Microtus richardsoni; Richardson vole; water vole (of western North America)
Microtus ochrogaster; prairie vole (typical vole of the extended prairie region of central United States and southern Canada)
Arvicola amphibius; water rat; water vole (common large Eurasian vole)
red-backed mouse; redback vole (any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America)
phenacomys (any of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States)
