| NOUN | animal | pocket mouse | any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail |
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| Meaning | Any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail. | |
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| Member of | Heteromyidae, family Heteromyidae | small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping |
| Narrower | Mexican pocket mouse, Liomys irroratus | large pocket mouse of Mexico |
| hispid pocket mouse, Perognathus hispidus | large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States | |
| plains pocket mouse, Perognathus flavescens | small rodent of open areas of United States plains states | |
| silky pocket mouse, Perognathus flavus | small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico | |
| Broader | pocket rat | Any of various rodents with cheek pouches |
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