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# vole

noun (a vole, voles)

«vole» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A vole is a small, plump rodent like a mouse, with a short tail, small ears and a blunt nose, that lives in fields, woods and riverbanks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/#m1)

### In the lessons

In nature lessons voles are an important part of food chains: owls, kestrels, foxes, weasels and stoats eat lots of them. The water vole is a British riverbank animal that has become rare because of American mink and loss of habitat; Ratty in «The Wind in the Willows» is really a water vole. Phrases: «field vole», «bank vole», «water vole».

### Examples

- A barn owl swooped down and caught a vole. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/#x1)
- Voles have shorter tails than mice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/#x2)
- Ratty in «The Wind in the Willows» is really a water vole. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/#x3)
- Water voles dig burrows in riverbanks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/#x4)
- We found vole tunnels in the long grass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/#x5)
- Voles eat grass, roots and seeds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/#x6)
- The kestrel hovered, looking for voles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/#x7)

### Note

Plural «voles». Trap: a vole is not a mole (a mole digs underground and eats worms) and not exactly a mouse (shorter tail, rounder face). Rhymes with «hole».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «vole» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vole/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«vole» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/vole.html) on Mova free.