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water vole

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water vole
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large amphibious vole, Arvicola terrestris, of Eurasian river banks: family Cricetidae Also called water rat
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Noun1.water vole - common large Eurasian volewater vole - common large Eurasian vole          
Arvicola amphibius, water rat
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
Arvicola, genus Arvicola - in some classifications considered synonymous with Microtus
2.water vole - of western North Americawater vole - of western North America            
Microtus richardsoni, Richardson vole
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
genus Microtus, Microtus - voles of the northern hemisphere
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It is illegal to move a sleeping water vole and so plans to reconfigure the brook faced months of delays if ecologists failed to move them on.
VOLE COLONY FINALLY MOVES OUT by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Now a raft of regulations mean that, for example, if a water vole mother is feeding her young, developers have to back off for four weeks and let them escape the area before work can continue.
Days are numbered for water vole site; Work continues to move colony ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Immortalised as Ratty in the classic children's book Wind in the Willows, numbers of the once-common water vole have declined drastically and they are no longer a common sight along many of the country's rivers.
Award marks vole efforts by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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