vole

noun
🔊/vəʊl/
🔊/vəʊl/
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  1. a small animal like a mouse or rat that lives in fields or near rivers 田鼠see also water voleTopics Animalsc2
    Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally vole-mouse): from Norwegian voll(mus) ‘field (mouse)’.