new world mouse

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   a variety of rodent

   Broaderrodent

   NarrowerAmerican harvest mouse

   Part ofCricetidae

Questions about new world mouse

What does new world mouse mean?

new world mouse means "a variety of rodent".

Is new world mouse a common word?

new world 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.