field mouse

Questions about field mouse

What does field mouse mean?

field mouse means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for field mouse?

Close synonyms include vole, fieldmouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field mouse a common word?

field mouse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.