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Definition of Harvest mouse

1. Noun. Any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields.

2. Noun. Small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields.

Definition of Harvest mouse

1. Noun. A species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harvest Mouse

harumphs haruspex haruspication haruspications haruspices haruspicies haruspicy harvest harvest-lice harvest bug

harvest fly harvest home harvest mite harvest mites harvest moon harvest mouse (current term) harvest time harvest times harvestable harvested

harvester harvester ant harvesters harvestfish harvesting harvestings harvestless harvestman harvestmen harvestry

Literary usage of Harvest mouse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1901)
"DESCRIPTION OF A NE\V harvest mouse (REITHRODONTOMYS) FROM MEXICO. BY ('. ... harvest mouse ..."

2. Flashlights on Nature by Grant Allen (1905)
"She has caught a harvest- mouse, the tiniest and prettiest of our English ... THE BUTCHER-BIRD'S WIFE IMPALING A HARVEST-MOUSE. through the neck on a branch ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... the Harvest-Mouse. White of Selborne, who suggests the name of Mut ... who called it the Less Long- Tailed Field-Mouse and the Harvest-Mouse. ..."

4. Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, by John Aikin (1854)
"Occasionally during harvest that pretty and curious little animal, the harvest mouse is met with. Its nest, of which we give a cut, is of a very singular ..."

5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1889)
"Nevertheless, the harvest-mouse has not reached the very last stage of arboreal life, ... Clearly because the harvest-mouse's trees are trees of a very ..."

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