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harvest mouse

noun

Etymology

Coined by Thomas Pennant, after discovery by Gilbert White (1767); it is first named the Less long-tailed Field Mouse, and finally the harvest mouse (1776).

Definitions

  1. Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice).

  2. A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for harvest mouse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA