POCKET MOUSE

Pronunciation (US):

• POCKET MOUSE (noun)
  The noun POCKET MOUSE has 1 sense:

1. any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail

  Familiarity information: POCKET MOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

• POCKET MOUSE (noun)

Meaning:

Any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pocket mouse" is a kind of...):

pocket rat (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pocket mouse"):

Perognathus flavus; silky pocket mouse (small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico)

Perognathus flavescens; plains pocket mouse (small rodent of open areas of United States plains states)

hispid pocket mouse; Perognathus hispidus (large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States)

Liomys irroratus; Mexican pocket mouse (large pocket mouse of Mexico)

Holonyms ("pocket mouse" is a member of...):

family Heteromyidae; Heteromyidae (small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats)