water vole
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"That means we've got evidence of breeding water vole which is brilliant," he continues on the subject of the flattened poo.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
"So we've taken that idea and scaled it down to water vole size, which means using glitter."
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
It is home to a wide variety of protected species, including the great crested newt, water vole, bats, otters and grass snakes.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2023
The drainage pipe seemed the perfect vole-sized hole, but it took the photographer many days camped on the opposite side of the canal before he saw a water vole that thought the same.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2019
Really they are as easy as the water vole or skunk with me.
From Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
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