meadow mouse

any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.

Also called meadow vole.

Origin of meadow mouse

First recorded in 1795–1805

Good Father Meadow-Mouse then covered him up carefully with the very warmest blanket from his own bed.

Grasshopper Green and the Meadow Mice |John Rae
The meadow-mouse is very destructive to young trees, under cover of snow.

Soil Culture |J. H. Walden
Oh, how the little Meadow-Mouse Children enjoyed dancing lessons!

Grasshopper Green and the Meadow Mice |John Rae
Father Meadow-Mouse would every now and then blow his nose and exclaim, "Well, singe my whiskers and twist my tail!"

Grasshopper Green and the Meadow Mice |John Rae

No more does the mole who suffers for the sins of the meadow-mouse.

In the Open |Stanton Davis Kirkham

meadow mouse

US another name for vole 1