Lexic.us

Definition of Pine mouse

1. Noun. Short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pine Mouse

Literary usage of Pine mouse

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

1. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"It was Piney the pine mouse. White- foot, who knew him, had hunted him up and brought him along. "I thought you would n't mind if Piney came," explained ..."

2. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The points that the pine mouse possesses in common with the mole are evidently the results of similar habits, for this little beast is the most strictly ..."

3. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The points that the pine mouse possesses in common with the mole are evidently the results of similar habits, for this little beast is the most strictly ..."

4. The Commercial Apple Industry of North America by John Clifford Folger, Samuel Mable Thomson (1921)
"The pine mouse is not dissimilar to the field mouse except that it is smaller and reddish-brown instead of the characteristic grayish-brown color of the ..."

5. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1907)
"This pine mouse, called also the mole-like vole, has a wider distribution than the typical southern pine mouse (. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1913)
"One of the most interesting and certainly most inexplicable results of our collecting was the capture of seven examples of the northern pine mouse. ..."

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