harvest mouse

== English == === Etymology === Coined by Thomas Pennant, after discovery by Gilbert White (1767); it is first named the Less long-tailed Field Mouse, and finally the harvest mouse (1776). === Pronunciation === === Noun === harvest mouse (plural harvest mice) Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice). A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys. ==== Derived terms ==== western harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis) ==== Translations ==== === References ===