One or other of various rat- or mouse-like quadrupeds, esp. the short-tailed field-mouse, Microtus (formerly Arvicola) agrestis; the water-rat, M.…

a common Eurasian red-backed vole, Myodes (formerly Clethrionomys) glareolus (family Cricetidae), which inhabits woodlands, hedgerows, and also…

= red-backed vole n.

any vole of the genus Myodes (formerly Clethrionomys) (family Cricetidae, formerly Muridae), the members of which have reddish-brown backs and are…

a vole.

a large common vole of the subspecies Microtus arvalis orcadensis, found only in Orkney.