harvest mouse
Meanings
noun
- Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice).
- A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys.
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Etymology
Coined by Thomas Pennant, after discovery by Gilbert White (1767); it is first named the Less long-tailed Field Mouse, and finally the harvest mouse (1776).
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