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Noun vole has 1 sense

vole, field mouse - any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
--₁ is a kind of wood rat, wood-rat
--₁ has particulars:

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