jumping mouse
English
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Noun
jumping mouse (plural jumping mice)
- Any species of the taxonomic subfamily Zapodinae of rodents, variously endemic to North America or China.
- 1953, Lowell Sumner, Joseph Scattergood Dixon, Birds and Mammals of the Sierra Nevada, page 423,
- The jumping mouse is little larger than a house mouse and has a very long, scaly, untufted tail, one-third longer than the head and body. […] In fact, various observers have found that jumping mice with injured or amputated tails tumble over and are as helpless as a ship without a rudder.
- 1954, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California and Its Coastal Waters, page 256,
- In some respects a jumping mouse resembles kangaroo rats and kangaroo mice in habits and appearance. A jumping mouse may readily be distinguished from these animals, however, by its lack of fur-lined cheek pouches and by its preference for, or nearness to, moist habitats instead of arid places.
- 1999, Marcia Bonta, Appalachian Summer, page 138,
- That was when we realized that we have two species of jumping mice on the mountain.
- 1953, Lowell Sumner, Joseph Scattergood Dixon, Birds and Mammals of the Sierra Nevada, page 423,
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Translations
species of subfamily Zapodinae
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