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Definition of American harvest mouse
1. Noun. Any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields.
Exact synonyms: Harvest Mouse
Generic synonyms: New World Mouse
Group relationships: Genus Reithrodontomys, Reithrodontomys
Generic synonyms: New World Mouse
Group relationships: Genus Reithrodontomys, Reithrodontomys
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Harvest Mouse
Literary usage of American harvest mouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Student's Reference Work for Teachers, Students and Families by Chandler Belden Beach, Frank Morton McMurry (1917)
"The American harvest-mouse belongs to the south. The rice-field mouse also is a
southern animal; aquatic in its habits, it abounds on the banks of rice- ..."