harvest mouse

English

(sense 1)
(sense 2)

Wikispecies

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).[1][2]

Noun

harvest mouse (plural harvest mice)

  1. Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice).
  2. A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys.

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References

  1. ^ Rashleigh Holt-White, editor (1901), The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne‎[1], volume 1
  2. ^ Edward Donovan (1820) The Natural History of British Quadrupeds‎[2], volume 1
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