harvest mouse

English

(sense 1)

(sense 2)

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).

Noun

harvest mouse (plural harvest mice)

1. Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice).
2. A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys.

Derived terms

• western harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis)

Translations

Micromys minutus

• Basque: uzta-sagu
• Bulgarian: оризищна мишка f (orizištna miška)
• Catalan: ratolí de les collites m, ratolí espiguer m
• Danish: dværgmus c
• Dutch: dwergmuis (nl) f, oogstmuis f
• Finnish: vaivaishiiri (fi)
• French: rat des moissons (fr) m, souris des moissons (fr) m
• German: Eurasische Zwergmaus f
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• Hebrew: עכברון הקמה m (akhbarón hakamá)
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• Hungarian: törpeegér
• Irish: luch fhómhair f
• Italian: topolino delle risaie m
• Japanese: 萱鼠 (kayanezumi)
• Korean: 멧밭쥐 (metbatjwi)
• Latvian: pundurpele f
• Polish: badylarka f
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• Russian: мышь-малю́тка f (myšʹ-maljútka)
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• Swedish: dvärgmus c
• Ukrainian: мишка лучна f (myška lučna)
• Welsh: llygoden yr ŷd f

mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys

• Finnish: hiirunen
• French: souris des moissons d'Amérique m
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• Russian: боло́тный хомячо́к m (bolótnyj xomjačók)
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