HyperDic: red-backed_mouse

English > 1 sense of the expression red-backed mouse:
NOUNanimalred-backed mouse, redback voleany of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America
English > red-backed mouse: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningAny of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America.
Synonymredback vole
Member ofClethrionomys, genus ClethrionomysA genus of Cricetidae
Broadervole, field mouseAny of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows

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