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n. - Any nocturnal Old World rodent of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and meadows and gardens.

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  • I shrugged and nodded and trudged away into the drizzle, feeling as weak as a fieldmouse dropped by a hawk.
  • And besides, since winter is coming, the dying clammy ground cherry makes a good Pilgrim hat for the fieldmouse.
  •   And besides, since winter is coming, the dying clammy ground cherry makes a good Pilgrim hat for the fieldmouse.
  • Hawks hovered high above the hollows, dipping occasionally out of the sky when they saw a groundhog or fieldmouse below.
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