fieldmouse

/ ˈfiːldˌmaʊs /

noun

1. 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

2. a former name for vole 1

Example Sentences

“Shoo! Away with you, little fieldmouse. I need Matthias with a clear brain to help me solve an important problem, so run along.”

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Why, having become mountain lions, should they continue to practise what upheld them when they were fieldmice?

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Not a sound broke the silence, for the sea-gulls had vanished with the sunshine, and not even a fieldmouse stirred in the bracken.

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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".

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Even the grasshopper in the ditch, and a fieldmouse scurrying in alarm through the tall blades of corn, hardly broke the stillness.

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