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POCKET MOUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pocket mouse" is a kind of...):
pocket rat (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pocket mouse"):
Perognathus flavus; silky pocket mouse (small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico)
Perognathus flavescens; plains pocket mouse (small rodent of open areas of United States plains states)
hispid pocket mouse; Perognathus hispidus (large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States)
Liomys irroratus; Mexican pocket mouse (large pocket mouse of Mexico)
Holonyms ("pocket mouse" is a member of...):
family Heteromyidae; Heteromyidae (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)
