deer-mousen.
The popular name of certain American mice; esp. the widely-distributed white-footed mouse ( Hesperomys leucopus) brown above and white beneath; also the common jumping-mouse ( Zapus hudsonius), so called from its agility.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Zapodidae (jumping-mouse)
seven sleeper1799
jumping-mouse1839
deer-mouse1840
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Peromyscus (deer-mouse)
white-footed mouse1827
deer-mouse1840
vesper mouse1859
old-field mouse1898
rock mouse1904
whitefoot1912
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > other types of mouse or rat
rock rat1781
Otomys1834
rabbit rat1837
deer-mouse1840
bamboo rat1881
muskrat1884
sigmodont1884
grasshopper mouse1888
veld rat1905
striped mouse1932
Sprague-Dawley1951
1840 E. Emmons Rep. Quadrupeds Mass. (Mass. Zool. & Bot. Survey) 62 Arvicola Emmonsii... This beautiful animal..is known by the name of Deer Mouse.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxiv. 194 A small ‘deer mouse’, of which little and very destructive animals their lodges contained many.
1884–90 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 111 The white-footed, or Deer Mouse..is perhaps the best known of all the species, and its varieties, or rather local permanent races, are distributed all over the continent of North America.
1970 Sci. Amer. Feb. 58 The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), a small, white-footed species that is noted for its ubiquitous presence throughout North America.
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