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- noun Plural form of
woodmouse .
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Examples
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Watching it, Silk (who had never considered the lives of Echidna's pets before) suddenly realized that the building of Blood's wall, with the cleared strip on its forest side and the closely trimmed lawn on the other, had irrevocably altered the lives of innumerable birds and small animals, changing the way in which woodmice foraged for food and hawks and owls hunted them.
Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993
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While held more than belly-deep in the sticky mud he had been attacked by the only kind of bear in all the Rockies that, unless under great provocation, attacks anything bigger than woodmice.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson
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But fern spores are rich in calories, lipids and proteins, providing a vital source of energy to woodmice in winter, according to the researchers.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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You may find furrows ploughed by voles, shrews and woodmice as they plough their way through - unless the snow is deep, in which case they scuttle around underneath it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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You may find furrows ploughed by voles, shrews and woodmice as they plough their way through - unless the snow is deep, in which case they scuttle around underneath it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"The Little Sly One was so sly and so small that she had no difficulty in creeping up on birds and woodmice, to say nothing of grasshoppers, beetles and crickets.
Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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