jumping mouse

Definitions

Any species of the taxonomic family Zapodidae of rodents, variously endemic to North America or China.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“In some respects a jumping mouse resembles kangaroo rats and kangaroo mice in habits and appearance. A jumping mouse may readily be distinguished from these animals, however, by its lack of fur-lined cheek pouches and by its preference for, or nearness to, moist habitats instead of arid places.”

“That was when we realized that we have⟳ two species of jumping mice on the mountain.”

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