pine mouse

pine mouse
noun
short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States
Hypernyms: ↑vole, ↑field mouse
Member Holonyms: ↑Pitymys, ↑genus Pitymys

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noun
: a short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing meadow mouse (Pitymys pinetorum) of the eastern United States

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any of a widespread genus of voles, Pitymys, having small ears and a short tail; esp. the American forest-dwelling mouse P. pinetorum. Also called pine vole.
[1850-55, Amer.]

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