harvest mouse
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
harvest mouse
▶noun
- 1 a small North Eurasian mouse with a prehensile tail, nesting among the stalks of growing cereals. [Micromys minutus.]
- 2 a nocturnal mouse found in North and Central America. [Genus Reithrodontomys: several species.]
'harvest mouse' also found in these Oxford entries:
