Mouse
see also: Etymology of Mouse
See also: Mouse (homonymy)
The term mouse indicates above all the Mus musculus but can also indicate other species of microphone-mammal which are not inevitably Rongeur S. They are characterized by their small size, their pointed muzzle, their round ears, and a relatively long tail.
Etymology and domestiquation
Of popular Latin soricem , the accusative of sōrῑx , deterioration of traditional Latin sōrex , sorĭcis .
Expressions
- to play the cat and mouse: to continue without slackening, a such cat and a mouse
- the race trotte-menu: in reference with the Fountain, expression indicating the small rodents (rats, mouse…).
- small mouse: creature supposed Fantastique to replace by money the Tooth baby that the children lost if they leave it under their Oreiller before falling asleep.
- while the cat's away the mice will play: when the superior is absent, the subordinates benefit from their freedom.
Some species
There exists forty species in the Mus kind. The score of species of marsupial Souris S are gathered in the kind Sminthopsis . Certain races are regarded as domestic.
- Driven musculus (domestic mouse )
- Apodemus agrarius (russet-red mouse)
- Micromys minutus (dwarf mouse or rat of the harvests)
- Apodemus sylvaticus (mulot or mouse of wood)
- Driven crociduroides (mouse of Sumatra)
- Several mice of the New World Sigmodontinae, and of Madagascar Nesomyinae
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Related articles
- List of the mice of fiction
- Mouse (data-processing)
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