| English Dictionary |
HARVEST MOUSE
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
| IPA (US): |  |
Dictionary entry overview: What does harvest mouse mean?
• HARVEST MOUSE (noun)
The noun HARVEST MOUSE has 2 senses:
1. any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
2. small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
Familiarity information: HARVEST MOUSE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
American harvest mouse; harvest mouse
Hypernyms ("harvest mouse" is a kind of...):
New World mouse (a variety of rodent)
Holonyms ("harvest mouse" is a member of...):
genus Reithrodontomys; Reithrodontomys (New World harvest mice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
harvest mouse; Micromyx minutus
Hypernyms ("harvest mouse" is a kind of...):
mouse (any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails)
Holonyms ("harvest mouse" is a member of...):
genus Micromyx; Micromyx (Old World harvest mice)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"One swallow doesn't make a spring." (Bulgarian proverb)
"Every person is observant to the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws." (Arabic proverb)
"He who has nothing will not eat. If you want flour, go gather chestnuts." (Corsican proverb)