pocket mouse

What does pocket mouse mean?

pocket mouse means "any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail".

Is pocket mouse a common word?

pocket 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pocket mouse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.