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

1 sense of vole

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))