meadow mouse

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. See field mouse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A field-mouse or vole of North America; any member of the subfamily Arvicolinæ. The commonest one in the United States is Arvicola riparius. See cut under Arvicola.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. (Zoöl.) any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species Arvicola riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada