| 单词 | vole |
| 释义 | vole (once / 13341 pages) n WORD FAMILY vole: voles USAGE EXAMPLESThe scene had every implication of an owl scooping up a midnight snack — some unfortunate mouse or vole. Seattle Times(Nov 10, 2016) Ancient villagers on the U.K. archipelago of Orkney likely dined on food items we’d consider luxuries today: venison, oysters, crab, mussels, cod, and … voles? Science Magazine(Oct 21, 2016) Bones from archaeological sites in Orkney show voles were cooked or boiled for food, or possibly for pest control. BBC(Oct 19, 2016) n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper field mouse grasshopper mouse insectivorous mouse of western North America Pitymys pinetorum, pine mouse, pine voleshort-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States Microtus pennsylvaticus, meadow mouse, meadow volewidely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada Microtus richardsoni, Richardson vole, water voleof western North America Microtus ochrogaster, prairie voletypical vole of the extended prairie region of central United States and southern Canada Arvicola amphibius, water rat, water volecommon large Eurasian vole red-backed mouse, redback voleany of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America phenacomysany of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States wood rat, wood-rat any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
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