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pygmy mouse

n. very small dark grayish brown mouse resembling a house mouse; of Texas and Mexico [syn: Baiomys taylori]

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Pygmy mouse

Pygmy mouse may refer to:

  • Baiomys, a North American genus:
    • Northern pygmy mouse (Baiomys taylori)
    • Southern pygmy mouse (Baiomys musculus)
  • 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.