field mouse

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of field mouse¹

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

This gave her heart, and she went on more swiftly, till she reached a kitchen where an old field mouse was baking a cake.

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"Some he makes his slaves—even as we are—and that is the most dreadful fate of all," added the field-mouse.

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At last he went to the moor; but although he hunted there for a long while, he did not even see a field-mouse.

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They feed almost exclusively upon insects, and rarely a mole or field mouse.

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The Field-mouse is by no means an exception to the general rule, but produces as many young in a season as any of the Mice.

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