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field mouse
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field mouse, n.
- any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus
Apodemus inhabing woods and fields and gardens. [WordNet 1.5] - any mouse inhabiting fields, as the
campagnol and thedeer mouse . See Campagnol, and Deer mouse. [1913 Webster]
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