Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun field_mouse

2 senses of field mouse

Sense 1
vole, field mouse -- (any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows)
       => wood rat, wood-rat -- (any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks))

Sense 2
field mouse, fieldmouse -- (any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens)
       => mouse -- (any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails)