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WOOD MOUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various New World woodland mice
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wood mouse" 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 "wood mouse"):
Peromyscus leucopus; vesper mouse; white-footed mouse (American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts)
deer mouse; Peromyscus maniculatus (brownish New World mouse; most widely distributed member of the genus)
cactus mouse; Peromyscus eremicus (burrowing mouse of desert areas of southwestern United States)
cotton mouse; Peromyscus gossypinus (large dark mouse of southeastern United States)
Baiomys taylori; pygmy mouse (very small dark greyish brown mouse resembling a house mouse; of Texas and Mexico)
