fieldmouse
Britishnoun
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any nocturnal mouse of the genus Apodemus , inhabiting woods, fields, and gardens of the Old World: family Muridae . They have yellowish-brown fur and feed on fruit, vegetables, seeds, etc
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a former name for vole 1
Example Sentences
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“What do you suppose your mum and Basil are up to, Sam?” asked the young fieldmouse, whose curiosity was aroused.
From Literature
Why, having become mountain lions, should they continue to practise what upheld them when they were fieldmice?
From Project Gutenberg
Not a sound broke the silence, for the sea-gulls had vanished with the sunshine, and not even a fieldmouse stirred in the bracken.
From Project Gutenberg
In "Tinsel", Robertson urges us to "Tune to the frequency of the wood and you'll hear / the deer, breathing; a muscle, tensing; the sigh / of a fieldmouse under an owl".
From The Guardian
Even the grasshopper in the ditch, and a fieldmouse scurrying in alarm through the tall blades of corn, hardly broke the stillness.
From Project Gutenberg
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