fieldmouse

/ ˈfiːldˌmaʊs /

noun

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 1

Example Sentences

Entering the Abbey, the party stopped to make way for a pretty little fieldmouse bearing a tray.

From Literature

Why, having become mountain lions, should they continue to practise what upheld them when they were fieldmice?

From Project Gutenberg

Not a sound broke the silence, for the sea-gulls had vanished with the sunshine, and not even a fieldmouse stirred in the bracken.

From Project Gutenberg

In "Tinsel", Robertson urges us to "Tune to the frequency of the wood and you'll hear / the deer, breathing; a muscle, tensing; the sigh / of a fieldmouse under an owl".

From The Guardian

Even the grasshopper in the ditch, and a fieldmouse scurrying in alarm through the tall blades of corn, hardly broke the stillness.

From Project Gutenberg