harvest mouse

Noun

Meaning

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

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

American harvest mouse Micromyx minutus rodent field mouse fieldmouse New World mouse tiny rodent

Hypernyms

mouse New World mouse

Examples

A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. Walter de la Mare

Close letter words and terms

harvest mite harvest month harvest moon harvest of hay harvest queen harvest season