单词 | deer-mouse |
释义 | ˈdeer-mouse The popular name of certain American mice; esp. the widely-distributed white-footed mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) brown above and white beneath; also the common jumping-mouse (Zapus hudsonius), so called from its agility.
1840E. Emmons Rep. Quadrupeds of Mass. 62 Arvicola Emmonsii... This beautiful animal..is known by the name of Deer Mouse. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Indians I. xxiv. 194 A small ‘deer mouse’, of which little and very destructive animals their lodges contained many. 1884–90Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 111 The white-footed, or Deer Mouse..is perhaps the best known of all the species, and its varieties, or rather local permanent races, are distributed all over the continent of North America. 1970Sci. Amer. Feb. 58 The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), a small, white-footed species that is noted for its ubiquitous presence throughout North America. |

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