Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A French name of various species of field-mice or voles, as Arvicola arvalis and A. agrestis; hence, any vole or meadow-mouse of the subfamily Arvicolinæ, family Muridæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A mouse (
Arvicala agrestis ), called alsomeadow mouse , which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
Etymologies
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French, from campagne ("field").
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Examples
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Amongst these are the polar hare and fox, the ermine, the campagnol, often even the wolf and reindeer, besides the owl, yellow-hammer, and some other birds.
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Crespin L, Delattre P, Mehay V, Quéré J-P (2007) Evaluation du risque d'abondance du campagnol des champs (
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Crespin L, Delattre P, Mehay V, Quéré J-P (2007) Evaluation du risque d'abondance du campagnol des champs (
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