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harvest mouse

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables
har-vest -mouse
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice).

noun

A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys.

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).

Inflected Forms

harvest mice (plural)

Phrases

western harvest mouse

Synonyms

micromys minutus american harvest mouse

Questions

What does harvest mouse mean?
Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice).
Where does harvest mouse come from?
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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