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HARVEST MOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harvest mouse mean? 

HARVEST MOUSE (noun)
  The noun HARVEST MOUSE has 2 senses:

1. any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fieldsplay

2. small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfieldsplay

  Familiarity information: HARVEST MOUSE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HARVEST MOUSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American harvest mouse; harvest mouse

Hypernyms ("harvest mouse" is a kind of...):

New World mouse (a variety of rodent)

Holonyms ("harvest mouse" is a member of...):

genus Reithrodontomys; Reithrodontomys (New World harvest mice)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

harvest mouse; Micromyx minutus

Hypernyms ("harvest mouse" is a kind of...):

mouse (any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails)

Holonyms ("harvest mouse" is a member of...):

genus Micromyx; Micromyx (Old World harvest mice)


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