mouselike
- s of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse
- Curiously enough, the exemplary, mouselike little Chung-ling Soong turned out to have been getting letters and reading newspapers to some purpose.
- In pre-Nazi Norway a steamer ploughed for a quarter of an hour through shoals of mouselike lemmings swimming out to sea via the Trondheim Fjord.
- Unrelated to the rodent family and far from mouselike in its habits, the shrew is properly an insect eater.