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field mouse vs wood-rat

wood-rat vs field mouse

field mouse and wood-rat both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
field mouse Yes No No No
wood-rat Yes No No No
As nouns, wood-rat is a hypernym of field mouse; that is, wood-rat is a word with a broader meaning than field mouse:
  • field mouse: any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
  • wood-rat: any of various small short-tailed rodents of the Northern Hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
Other hypernyms of field mouse include wood rat.
field mouse (noun) wood-rat (noun)
any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows any of various small short-tailed rodents of the Northern Hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
Difference between field mouse and wood-rat

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