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Definition of House mouse
1. Noun. Brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide.
Definition of House mouse
1. Noun. The universally common mouse of the species ''Mus musculus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of House Mouse
Literary usage of House mouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE house mouse Teacher's Story + Somewhere in the darkness a clock strikes two;
And there is no sound in th>j sad old house, But the long veranda dripping ..."
2. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"Common in BEA, coming into the houses, and acting like a house mouse, ...
Body only slightly larger than that of a house mouse, but tail at least a third ..."
3. The Nursery by Fanny P Seaverns, John L. Shorey (Firm (1872)
"... you dear little things. THE Doc Boz. THE HOUSE-MOUSE AND THE WOOD-MOUSE.
You all know the house-mouse that runs about in our closets, ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1880)
"This disease could never be produced in the house-mouse unless its blood was ...
and the house-mouse when inoculated from an infected field-mouse then ..."
5. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"SIZE.—Head and body, 3-* inches; tail, nearly 4 inches. NO. 367. MUS NITIDULUS.
The Shiny Little house mouse of Pegu. HABITAT. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The first sub-family contains the various rats (qv), the house-mouse ...
The house-mouse has been a denizen of men's habitations probably ever since ..."
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