noun
any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
• Syn: ↑wood-rat
• Hyponyms:
↑dusky-footed wood rat, ↑vole, ↑field mouse, ↑packrat, ↑pack rat, ↑trade rat, ↑bushytail woodrat, ↑Neotoma cinerea, ↑eastern woodrat, ↑Neotoma floridana
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cricetidae, ↑family Cricetidae
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noun : any of numerous native voles of Neotoma and related genera (family Cricetidae) of the southern United States and western No. America having soft fur light gray to ocherous above and white below, well-furred tails, and large ears — compare pack rat
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woodrat, or wood rat,
= pack rat. (Cf. ↑pack rat)
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n. another term for pack rat
Useful english dictionary. 2012.