jumping mouse

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   any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America

   Broaderrodent

   Narrowermeadow jumping mouse

   Part ofZapodidae

Questions about jumping mouse

What does jumping mouse mean?

jumping mouse means "any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America".

Is jumping mouse a common word?

jumping mouse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.