Harvest mouse Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
    American harvest mouse.
  2. noun small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
    Micromyx minutus.

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Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants.

Webster 1913