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HOUSE MOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does house mouse mean?
• HOUSE MOUSE (noun)
The noun HOUSE MOUSE has 1 sense:
1. brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide
Familiarity information: HOUSE MOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
house mouse; Mus musculus
Hypernyms ("house 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 ("house mouse" is a member of...):
genus Mus; Mus (type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; the tips of the upper incisors have a square notch)
Context examples
A subspecies of common house mouse (Mus musculus).
(Mus musculus castaneus, NCI Thesaurus)
The common house mouse, often used as an experimental organism.
(Mus musculus, NCI Thesaurus)
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