hispid pocket mouse meaning

Noun: hispid pocket mouse

1. Large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States
   - Perognathus hispidus

Derived forms: hispid pocket mice

Type of: pocket mouse

Part of: genus Perognathus, Perognathus

Encyclopedia: Hispid pocket mouse

Examples

1. The "'hispid pocket mouse "'( " Chaetodipus hispidus " ) is a large pocket mouse native to the Great Plains region of North America.
2. Unlike other pocket mice the hispid pocket mouse often leaves a conspicuous mound of earth about the burrow entrance ( like the mounds of " pocket gophers ", but significantly smaller ).