wood mouse
AmericanEtymology
Origin of wood mouse
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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Somewhere in the mountains of southeastern Spain, a tiny wood mouse sniffs the nutty, alluring aroma of acorns.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2024
A wood mouse, displaced from a flooded or crumbled tunnel, scrambled in and hunched, shivering, in the crook of Tom’s knee.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
Of Mice And Magnets: The everyday wood mouse can sense magnetic fields -- possibly via quantum processes.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 27, 2015
But it was an open question whether or not mammals that live in the light also had this ability, leading Malkemper to test an everyday European furball:Apodemus sylvaticus, the wood mouse.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 24, 2015
One day, while lying still in the underbrush watching a wood mouse, Killooleet, a fine male bird and a perfect singer, came and sang on a branch just over my head, not noticing me.
From Wilderness Ways by Copeland, Charles
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