house mouse
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Definition(s):
- (n) brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide
Usage(s):
- Indicted for carrying poliomyelitis, the house mouse last week was convicted of typhus.
- The noise proved to be a house mouse (Mus musculus) calmly gnawing the sole of a newspaper reporter's shoe.
- The fleshy pads beneath the feet of the common house mouse and its albino kin in the laboratory are so tiny that it takes a highly imaginative researcher to suggest how they .
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