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mice

American  
[mahys] / maɪs /

noun

  1. plural of mouse.


mice British  
/ maɪs /

noun

  1. the plural of mouse

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mice Idioms  
  1. see best-laid plans of mice and men; when the cat's away, mice will play. Also see under mouse.


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Mice with blocked neuron activity became fatigued much sooner and failed to gain endurance during the two-week training period.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Mice have about 20 million olfactory neurons, each expressing one of more than a thousand receptor types.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

They had a song for him, roughly to the tune of the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Mice with normal tuft cell function ate less as the infection progressed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

Mice and woodlanders sat about on the stone floor of Great Hall, each creature with its own sorrowful thoughts.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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