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harvest mouse
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harvest mouse
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a very small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse, Micromys minutus, inhabiting cornfields, hedgerows, etc., and feeding on grain and seeds: family Muridae
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) American harvest mouse. any small greyish mouse of the American genus Reithrodontomys: family Cricetidae
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Noun1.harvest mouse - any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fieldsharvest mouse - any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
American harvest mouse
New World mouse - a variety of rodent
genus Reithrodontomys, Reithrodontomys - New World harvest mice
2.harvest mouse - small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfieldsharvest mouse - small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
Micromyx minutus
mouse - any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
genus Micromyx, Micromyx - Old World harvest mice
Translations
harvest mouse n → topolino nano
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Micromys minutus was only trapped in two locations, a reed bed and scrub woodland, and a solitary A.
The influence of habitat and landscape on small mammals in Estonian ... by Scott, Dawn M.; Joyce, Chris B.; Burnside, Niall G. / Estonian Journal of Ecology
Antibodies were also detected in Apodemus sylvaticus, Microtus agrestis, Micromys minutis, captive-housed Cynomys ludovicianus, and Rattus norvegicus.
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Byline: By Linda Richards With a name longer than it is, life was always going to be hard for the micromys minutus.
Please scurry to save scarce rodent by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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