red-backed mouse

1. 1.

   any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America

   Synonymsredback vole

   Broadervole

   Part ofClethrionomys

Questions about red-backed mouse

What does red-backed mouse mean?

red-backed mouse means "any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America".

What is another word for red-backed mouse?

Close synonyms include redback vole. 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 red-backed mouse a common word?

red-backed 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.