noun
brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide
• Syn: ↑Mus musculus
• Hypernyms: ↑mouse
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noun : a mouse that frequents houses; especially : a common nearly cosmopolitan usually gray mouse (Mus musculus) that lives and breeds about buildings and is important as a consumer of human food, as a vector of diseases, and as an experimental animal
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a brownish-gray Old World mouse, Mus musculus, now common in the U.S. in or near houses. See illus. under mouse.
[1825-35]
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house mouse noun
A brownish-grey mouse (Mus musculus) that is a pest in human houses
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Main Entry: ↑house
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house mouse,
a small, destructive, grayish-brown mouse living about buildings throughout the world.
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n. a grayish-brown mouse found abundantly as a scavenger in human dwellings. It is widely kept as a pet or experimental animal and has been bred in many varieties. ● Mus musculus, family Muridae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.