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St Kilda field mice

St Kilda field mice is the plural of St Kilda field mouse.

Meaning of St Kilda field mouse

Noun

St Kilda field mouse (plural St Kilda field mice)

  1. A subspecies of wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus hirtensis, endemic to the Hebridean island of St Kilda.
    • The St Kilda field mice that live on that isolated Hebridean island, introduced by hitchhiking on Viking longships only about a thousand years ago, are already much heavier than those on the mainland.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 54

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What is St Kilda field mice the plural of?
St Kilda field mice is the plural of St Kilda field mouse.

Words near St Kilda field mice in the dictionary

  1. St Kew
  2. St Kew Highway
  3. St Keyne
  4. St Kilda
  5. St Kilda East
  6. St Kilda field mice
  7. St Kilda field mouse
  8. St Kilda West
  9. St Kildan
  10. St Kildans
  11. St Kitts & Nevis

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