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fieldmouse

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fieldmouse
1. any nocturnal mouse of the genus Apodemus, inhabiting woods, fields, and gardens of the Old World: family Muridae. They have yellowish-brown fur and feed on fruit, vegetables, seeds, etc.
2. a former name for vole


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In his development of concepts like inscape and instress, one can see the shadow of Keats, who wrote in an 1819 letter: "1 go among the fields and catch a glimpse of a stoat or a fieldmouse peeping out of the withered grass--the creature hath a purpose and its eyes are bright with it.
Byline: BY GREIG BOX TURNBULL A PLUCKY fieldmouse pulls off one of nature's great escapes after being swept away in a swollen river.
I was glad to find my little fieldmouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) gorging itself.
 
 
 
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