vole

UK /vəʊl/ · US /voʊl/

Etymology Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.

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Amargosa vole, bank vole, beach vole, Brandt's vole, Buchanan vole, California vole, Clarke's vole, common vole, creeping vole, East European vole, Evorsk vole, field vole, flat-headed vole, Gull Island vole, heather vole, lacustrine vole, Lake Baikal vole, large-eared vole, lemming vole, long-tailed vole, mandarin vole, Marie's vole, Maximowicz's vole, meadow vole, Mexican vole, Middendorff's vole, mogollon vole, mole vole, Mongolian vole, montane vole, mountain vole, Muisk vole, Murree vole, Muskeget vole, Muya Valley vole, narrow-headed vole, Nasarov's vole, north Siberian vole, Olkhon Mountain vole, Oregon vole, Orkney vole, paradox vole, Pere David's vole, Persian vole, pine vole, plateau vole, prairie vole, red-backed vole, redback vole, red tree vole, reed vole, Richardson's vole, rock vole, root vole, royal vole, sagebrush vole, Schidlovsky's vole, Shansei vole, Shikotan vole, sibling vole, singing vole, Smith's vole, snow vole, southern vole, steppe vole, Szechuan vole, taiga vole, Tien Shan vole, Townsend's vole, tree vole, tundra vole, Tyrrhenian vole, volelike, water vole, white-footed vole, woodland vole, yellow vole