WATER VOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water vole mean? 

• WATER VOLE (noun)
  The noun WATER VOLE has 2 senses:

1. common large Eurasian vole

2. of western North America

  Familiarity information: WATER VOLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER VOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common large Eurasian vole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Arvicola amphibius; water rat; water vole

Hypernyms ("water vole" is a kind of...):

field mouse; vole (any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows)

Holonyms ("water vole" is a member of...):

Arvicola; genus Arvicola (in some classifications considered synonymous with Microtus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Microtus richardsoni; Richardson vole; water vole

Hypernyms ("water vole" is a kind of...):

field mouse; vole (any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows)

Holonyms ("water vole" is a member of...):

genus Microtus; Microtus (voles of the northern hemisphere)