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Answer for the clue "Housemaster agitated about very small rodent ", 13 letters:
harvest mouse

Word definitions for harvest mouse in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several small grayish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields [syn: American harvest mouse ] small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields [syn: Micromyx minutus ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Micromys minutus'', a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mouse). 2 A New World mouse of the genus ''Reithrodontomys''.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harvest \Har"vest\ (h[aum]r"v[e^]st), n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h[ae]rfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. karpo`s fruit. Cf. Carpet .] The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Harvest mouse may refer to members of two groups of rodents: Micromys from Eurasia, particularly the Eurasian harvest mouse ( Micromys minutus ) Reithrodontomys from the Americas

Usage examples of harvest mouse.

Only last evening I saw you playing 'catch the bulrush* with that young harvest mouse.

Under a nearby pear tree Dandin stood paws on hips with his friend, young Saxtus the harvest mouse.

He started up from the table, spilling cold coffee and scaring off a tiny harvest mouse that had been foraging among the crumbs.