Associations to the word «Microtus»

Wiktionary

MICROTUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Cricetidae   — some voles of the Northern Hemisphere.
MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Muridae   — the meadow vole of northern North America.

Dictionary definition

MICROTUS, noun. Voles of the northern hemisphere.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope