field mouse

noun

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

Origin of field mouse

First recorded in 1570–80

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Historical Examples of fieldmouse

I had to pull up with Fieldmouse, and couldn't get her to going again.
Old Man Curry
Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
Tommelise was obliged to sit down and spin; and the fieldmouse hired six spiders to spin and weave both night and day.
Wonderful Stories for Children
Hans Christian Andersen
Not a sound broke the silence, for the sea-gulls had vanished with the sunshine, and not even a fieldmouse stirred in the bracken.
A Fortunate Term
Angela Brazil
You are as demure as a fieldmouse, but I know those big eyes of yours have taken our measures by this time.
A Princess in Calico
Edith Ferguson Black
Both mice and rats are common, the former precisely resembling in appearance the English fieldmouse.
Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2)
George Grey

British Dictionary definitions for fieldmouse

fieldmouse

noun plural -mice

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

a former name for vole 1

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