vole
Noun
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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 (synset 102342028)
is a type of: wood rat, wood-rat - any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)subtypes:
- grasshopper mouse - insectivorous mouse of western North America
- pine mouse, pine vole, pitymys pinetorum - short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States
- meadow mouse, meadow vole, microtus pennsylvaticus - widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada
- microtus richardsoni, richardson vole, water vole - of western North America
- microtus ochrogaster, prairie vole - typical vole of the extended prairie region of central United States and southern Canada
- arvicola amphibius, water rat, water vole - common large Eurasian vole
- red-backed mouse, redback vole - any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America
- phenacomys - any of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States
same as: field mouse
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