See Also: Vole(medicine)
vole(1)(dictionary)
vole(2)(dictionary)
vole(encyclopedia)
vole(dictionary)
field-vole(medicine)
vole bacillus(medicine)
water vole(medicine)
water vole(dictionary)

vole(2) (iou)



vole noun2. E19.
[from Norwegian voll field (+ mus mouse).]
Orig. vole-mouse. Any of various small thickset short-tailed herbivorous rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera of the family Muridae, widespread in cold and temperate parts of the northern hemisphere.
meadow vole, Orkney vole, pine vole, red-backed vole, snow vole, water-vole, etc. bank vole a relatively long-tailed vole, Clethrionomys glareolus, of Eurasian woodland and scrub. common vole a light-coloured Eurasian vole, Microtus arvalis, found in the British Isles only in Guernsey and Orkney. field vole a vole of Eurasian grassland, Microtus agrestis.