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PINE MOUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States
Synonyms:
pine mouse; pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pine mouse" is a kind of...):
field mouse; vole (any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows)
Holonyms ("pine mouse" is a member of...):
genus Pitymys; Pitymys (pine mice)