house mouse

noun

brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide

• Syn: ↑Mus musculus

• Hypernyms: ↑mouse

• Member Holonyms: ↑Mus, ↑genus Mus

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noun

: a mouse that frequents houses; especially : a common nearly cosmopolitan usually gray mouse (Mus musculus) that lives and breeds about buildings and is important as a consumer of human food, as a vector of diseases, and as an experimental animal

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a brownish-gray Old World mouse, Mus musculus, now common in the U.S. in or near houses. See illus. under mouse.

[1825-35]

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house mouse noun

A brownish-grey mouse (Mus musculus) that is a pest in human houses

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Main Entry: ↑house

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house mouse,

a small, destructive, grayish-brown mouse living about buildings throughout the world.

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n. a grayish-brown mouse found abundantly as a scavenger in human dwellings. It is widely kept as a pet or experimental animal and has been bred in many varieties. ● Mus musculus, family Muridae