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wood rat

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wood rat
n.
See pack rat.
wood rat
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for pack rat
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Noun1.wood rat - any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large earswood rat - 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)
wood-rat
gnawer, rodent - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
Cricetidae, family Cricetidae - mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters
dusky-footed wood rat - a wood rat with dusky feet
field mouse, vole - any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, trade rat, pack rat, packrat - any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
eastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana - large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States
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