PINE VOLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States

Synonyms:

pine mouse; pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pine vole" is a kind of...):

field mouse; vole (any 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)

Holonyms ("pine vole" is a member of...):

genus Pitymys; Pitymys (pine mice)

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