| 单词 | short-tailed field mouse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort-tailed field mouse field mouse n. any of various mice or other small mammals found in the open countryside and recognized as being distinct from the house mouse, now esp. mice of the Eurasian genus Apodemus or the American genus Peromyscus, or (now North American) voles of the genus Microtus; esp. (more fully long-tailed field mouse) the wood mouse, A. sylvaticus; (more fully short-tailed field mouse) the field vole, M. agrestis (now rare).See also old-field mouse n. at old field n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Apodemus (field-mouse) mygalea1382 field mouse?1440 ranny1559 hardishrew1601 wood mouse1601 nossro1686 bean-mouse1766 St. Kilda mouse1899 Fair Isle1906 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 918 (MED) As for the feeld mous..With affadille vp close her holis alle. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Mygala, a felde mouse with a longe snoute, callyd a shrewe. 1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth 31 Byrdes, Antes, Field Mice, and other spoylers of the Garden Herbes. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 542 Of Wilde Field-Mice... There is of these mice two kinds, a greater and a lesser. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors vii. 415 We saw also, neer Terki, a kind of Field-mice, which in the Arabian Language are called Jerbuah. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 50 The short tailed Field Mouse. 1774 tr. J. von Stæhlin Acct. New Northern Archipel. 32 The speckled field-mouse (Mus Citellus), which they call Jewraschki or Suslik. 1824 P. Schmidtmeyer Trav. into Chile v. 88 The Chinchilla is a woolly field mouse, which lives under ground, and chiefly feeds on wild onions. 1861 C. Norton Lady of La Garaye iii. 69 The small field-mouse, with wide transparent ears, Comes softly forth. 1956 Jrnl. Mammalogy 37 297 The order of preference for..foods in the diet of field mice was concluded to be wheat, corn, oats and barley, and pumpkin seeds. 1997 Guardian 4 Jan. i. 15/4 A sudden glut of field mice is guzzling away at the crops. < as lemmas |
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