Noun:

चूहे की तरह का एक जानवर, हर प्रकार की चालो पर विजय,

voles's Usage Examples:

There are several varieties of grasshopper mice (Orychomys), white-footed mice (Peromyscus), harvest mice (Reithrodontomys), rice-rats (Oryzomys), wood-rats (Neotoma), voles (Microtus), 'c. Bats inhabit caves in Burnet, Williamson, Lampasas, Gillespie and other counties.

It is true indeed that in zoological nomenclature some of these are distinguished as "voles," but this is not in accord with popular usage, where such creatures - come under the designation either of water-rats or field-mice.

female water voles are only pregnant for 3 weeks!

Voles, as typified by the water-rat and the tailed fieldmouse, are stouter built and shorter-nosed rodentsthan the typical rats and mice, with smaller ears and eyes and shorter tails; all being good burrowers.

The water voles of Batley have received a welcome boost.

saxatilus), two voles (Arvicola russatus and A.

Although the British representatives of this group should undoubtedly retain their vernacular designations of water-rat and short-tailed field-mouse, the term "vole" is one of great convenience in zoology as a general one for all the members of the group. Systematically voles are classed in the mammalian order Rodentia, in which they constitute the typical section of the subfamily Microtinae in the Muridae, or mouse-group. As a group, voles are characterized by being more heavily built than rats and mice, and by their less brisk movements.

The third sub-family is that of the Microtinae, or voles, which are distributed all over Europe, Northern Asia and North America, and are characterized by the tympanic bulla of the skull being filled with honey-combed bony tissue, the small size of the infra-orbital foramen, and the deep pterygoid fossa on the palatal aspect.

The reindeer, arctic fox (Canis lagopus), hare, wolf, lemming (Myodes obensis), collar lemming (Cuniculus torquatus) and two species of voles (Arvicolae) are the most common on land.

Various species of small native mice and voles are abundant.

Synonyms:

meadow vole, Microtus richardsoni, prairie vole, Arvicola amphibius, Pitymys pinetorum, wood-rat, Microtus pennsylvaticus, water rat, water vole, Microtus ochrogaster, meadow mouse, pine vole, grasshopper mouse, Richardson vole, field mouse, redback vole, pine mouse, red-backed mouse, phenacomys, wood rat,