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NEW WORLD MOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does New World mouse mean?
• NEW WORLD MOUSE (noun)
The noun NEW WORLD MOUSE has 1 sense:
1. a variety of rodent
Familiarity information: NEW WORLD MOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variety of rodent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("New World mouse" is a kind of...):
gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New World mouse"):
American harvest mouse; harvest mouse (any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields)
Holonyms ("New World mouse" is a member of...):
Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)
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