Any of many small native mammals, including marsupial mice and rodents.
a tiny bush mouse was scurrying across the ground by an ant hill
Example sentencesExamples
- I had derived maximum satisfaction from sharing the smallest of things, for example, the sharing of a bush mouse or small bird with my siblings.
- The bush mice came in out of the cold and wet.
- No tent. Bush mice hopping. A far cry from romantic.
- How do children catch a bush mouse?
- In the corner of the Witch's house there just happened to be hiding a tiny bush mouse.
- There were cast bronze and aluminium sculptures of echidnas and bush mice.
- A virus was isolated from the tissues of a trapped local bush mouse.
- A virus was finally run to earth, one that caused a harmless lifelong infection in a local species of bush mouse.
- Instead of a town mouse and a country mouse in Australia, there would be a town mouse and a bush mouse.
- As I came to this realization the bush mouse moved.