WordNet
pygmy mouse
n. very small dark grayish brown mouse resembling a house mouse; of Texas and Mexico [syn: Baiomys taylori]
Wikipedia
Pygmy mouse
Pygmy mouse may refer to:
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Baiomys, a North American genus:
- Northern pygmy mouse (Baiomys taylori)
- Southern pygmy mouse (Baiomys musculus)
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Nannomys, an African subgenus:
- Desert pygmy mouse (Mus indutus)
- African pygmy mouse, South African Pygmy Mouse, or just Pygmy Mouse (Mus minutoides)
- Subsaharan pygmy mouse (Mus musculoides)
- Free State pygmy mouse (Mus orangiae)
- Setzer's pygmy mouse (Mus setzeri)
- Thomas's pygmy mouse (Mus sorella)
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse (Mus triton)
- Pygmy mouse (mutant) (pg), a mutant strain of the laboratory mouse
Usage examples of "pygmy mouse".
He also changed from a city street-child to a lean, hard young man who could survive off country which, to the untrained eye, would not support a pygmy mouse.