RED-BACKED MOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red-backed mouse mean? 

• RED-BACKED MOUSE (noun)
  The noun RED-BACKED MOUSE has 1 sense:

1. any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America

  Familiarity information: RED-BACKED MOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED-BACKED MOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

red-backed mouse; redback vole

Hypernyms ("red-backed 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 ("red-backed mouse" is a member of...):

Clethrionomys; genus Clethrionomys (a genus of Cricetidae)