Definition of Pine vole

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

Exact synonyms: Pine Mouse, Pitymys Pinetorum
Generic synonyms: Field Mouse, Vole
Group relationships: Genus Pitymys, Pitymys

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pine Vole

pine marten
pine martens
pine mouse
pine needle
pine nut
pine nuts
pine oil
pine sawyer
pine siskin
pine snake
pine spittlebug
pine tar
pine terpene
pine tree
pine trees
pine vole (current term)
pine weevil
pine woods snake
pineal
pineal body
pineal cells
pineal cyst
pineal eye
pineal gland
pineal gland calcification
pineal glands
pineal habenula
pineal recess
pineal region tumours
pineal tumours

Literary usage of Pine 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)
"The pine vole, however, is a rodent and one of the strictest vegetarians of its order. It can be instantly distinguished from any of the Insectivora, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"These two specimens of pine vole are the most northern taken in the state. Hahn (4) says he has not taken this species in the northern part of the state, ..."

3. Management Guide for Low-Input Sustainable Apple Production by Lorraine P. Berkett (1994)
"Figure 6: (top) pine vole, (bottom) meadow vole Several types of plastic and paper tree guards are available, as well. They are easier to handle than wire ..."

4. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1907)
"The woodland vole (M. p. nemoralis) is the largest form of the pine vole in America, and has longer and less glossy fur than the forms east of the ..."

5. Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark: 194 Essays from the Pages of by Robert A. Saindon (2003)
"In one, for example, he introduced the pine vole (Pitymys pinetorum) to science. Ill health forced his departure form the Army in 1831. ..."

6. Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark V-2 of 3 by Robert A. Saindon (2003)
"... variety of topics—plants, amphibians, rodents, insects, and mollusks—and describe several new species. In one, for example, he introduced the pine vole ..."

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