field mouse

American  

noun

1. any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.

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Etymology

Origin of field mouse

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

The large Japanese field mouse consumed the seeds where plants and bushes protected them from predators.

From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2023

Someone may have been watching us — a dusky shrew, a field mouse, a rubber boa — but it felt like we were alone with the world to ourselves.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

"All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode."

From Fox News • Dec. 12, 2021

When Nature Calls With Helen Mirren This new episode imagines that a field mouse is heavily into non-fungible tokens and that a bear is actually a divorced gym teacher.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2021

The Labrador did his best and tried to initiate the other into the art of frog and field mouse hunting, but the terrier’s eyesight was too poor for him to have much success.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford