mousekind

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English

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Etymology

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From mouse +‎ -kind.

Noun

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mousekind (uncountable)

  1. The entirety of mice; all mice collectively as a group.
    • 1850, Rusticus, “The mice and the rats, the weasels and the stoats”, in Chambers's Journal, page 131:
      [] it must, I say, be obvious that such abundant supplies of favourite and wholesome food offers the greatest inducement to mousekind to associate themselves with mankind, to attend on their footsteps, and to increase and multiply under their provident but uninentional care.