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  • adjective having the approximate size of a mouse

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Examples

  • Another untitled Cattelan depicting a mouse-sized arched door sold for $362,500, above its $300,000 low estimate.

    Phillips de Pury Sells Cy Twombly for $9 Million Kelly Crow 2011

  • These little, brown, furry, mouse-sized bats were hooked on to many of the “ceilings” we passed, and we even had to duck to avoida batthat was sleeping on one of the lower ceilings.

    2010 April « Biodork 2010

  • These little, brown, furry, mouse-sized bats were hooked on to many of the “ceilings” we passed, and we even had to duck to avoida batthat was sleeping on one of the lower ceilings.

    Crystal Cave « Biodork 2010

  • At around 70mm long, and weighing up to 27g, these mouse-sized insects are one of the world’s heaviest insects and, for many, the stuff of nightmares.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Animals and humans live side by side, and their scales are all out of whack, so that the elphant is only slightly taller than the chicken and the cat, the mouse is actually mouse-sized, which is, for some reason half the size of the ladybug, and then there are regular, non-anthroporphic animals Cat is workin to earn money to buy a pet.

    Two new children’s books by comic book people 2009

  • All gray -- one gray squirrel, one gray mouse-sized corpse.

    Focus on failure jhetley 2008

  • This hotspot is known to be the home of about 60 species of native mammal, 12 of which are endemic: among these is included the mouse-sized, nectarivorous honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus), the only representative of the family Tarsipedidae, and an animal that is confined to the coastal plain heaths.

    Biological diversity in Southwest Australia 2008

  • Fossil bones of a mouse-sized creature that died between 16 million and 19 million years ago have been discovered on the South Island of New Zealand.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Dvorak doesn't even have the tiny mouse-sized ones to make a firm call for others.

    Dvorak: "I'm mad as a March hare." 2007

  • When Audubon woke the next morning, he saw a mouse-sized katydid's head and a couple of greenish brown legs only a yard or so from his bedroll.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

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