pocket mouse
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1. any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | pocket rat, |
definition | : | any of various rodents with cheek pouches (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | perognathus flavus, silky pocket mouse, |
definition | : | small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | perognathus flavescens, plains pocket mouse, |
definition | : | small rodent of open areas of United States plains states (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | hispid pocket mouse, perognathus hispidus, |
definition | : | large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | liomys irroratus, mexican pocket mouse, |
definition | : | large pocket mouse of Mexico (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | family heteromyidae, heteromyidae, |
definition | : | small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats (noun.animal) |
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