PINE MOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pine mouse mean? 

• PINE MOUSE (noun)
  The noun PINE MOUSE has 1 sense:

1. short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States

  Familiarity information: PINE MOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PINE MOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pine mouse; pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum

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)