DUSKY-FOOTED WOODRAT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California

Synonyms:

dusky-footed woodrat; Neotoma fuscipes

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dusky-footed woodrat" is a kind of...):

bushytail woodrat; Neotoma cinerea; pack rat; packrat; trade rat (any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects)

Holonyms ("dusky-footed woodrat" is a member of...):

genus Neotoma; Neotoma (packrats)

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