Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The rice-field mouse.

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Examples

  • Two species of pygmy rice-rats Oligoryzomis sp. and a new rice-rat of the Subflavous group were recently discovered.

    Cerrado Protected Areas, Brazil 2008

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