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Definition of Meadow vole
1. Noun. Widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada.
Generic synonyms: Field Mouse, Vole
Group relationships: Genus Microtus, Microtus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meadow Vole
Literary usage of Meadow vole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and by Samuel Nicholson Rhoads (1903)
"... network of surface runs which shows so plainly along the fence rows when
snowdrifts melt away. Unlike the meadow vole, the subject of our sketch ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1898)
"Wilson's meadow vole. As was expected, the common meadow mouse proved very abundant
in all visited localities. Of the ninety specimens taken, none show any ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"One stomach contained an insect larva mutilated beyond recognition; the other
the remains of a meadow vole, recognizable by the hairs swallowed with the ..."
4. The Mammals of India: A Natural History of All the Animals Known to Inhabit by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1874)
"... one or two species only occurring in the Himalayas, of the same genus as the
Water- rat aud Meadow-vole of Britain. Gen. ARVICOLA, Lacepede. Syn. ..."
5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"... meadow vole Of these forest-living animals the giant deer (Megaceros), the
cave bear (Ursus ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1899)
"... of about one month, destroyed 12 small birds, io shrews, and Coo field mice,
of which the greater part were the common meadow vole or ' meadow mouse. ..."
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