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St Kilda field mouse

St Kilda field mouse noun: a subspecies of wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus hirtensis, endemic to the Hebridean island of St Kilda.

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

Forms of St Kilda field mouse

pluralSt Kilda field mice

Questions about St Kilda field mouse

What does St Kilda field mouse mean?
St Kilda field mouse means a subspecies of wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus hirtensis, endemic to the Hebridean island of St Kilda.
What part of speech is St Kilda field mouse?
St Kilda field mouse is a noun.
What is the plural of St Kilda field mouse?
The plural of St Kilda field mouse is St Kilda field mice.

Words near St Kilda field mouse in the dictionary

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

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