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jumping mice

jumping mice is the plural of jumping mouse.

Meaning of jumping mouse

Noun

jumping mouse (plural jumping mice)

  1. Any species of the taxonomic family Zapodidae of rodents, variously endemic to North America and China.
    • The jumping mouse is little larger than a house mouse and has a very long, scaly, untufted tail, one-third longer than the head and body.[…]In fact, various observers have found that jumping mice with injured or amputated tails tumble over and are as helpless as a ship without a rudder.1953, Lowell Sumner, Joseph Scattergood Dixon, Birds and Mammals of the Sierra Nevada, page 423
    Synonyms:
    zapodid

Questions about jumping mice

What is jumping mice the plural of?
Jumping mice is the plural of jumping mouse.

Words near jumping mice in the dictionary

  1. jumping jack
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  3. jumping Jehoshaphat
  4. jumping Jesus
  5. jumping Judas
  6. jumping mice
  7. jumping mouse
  8. jumping off
  9. jumping on
  10. jumping on someone's bones
  11. jumping on the bandwagon

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