NEOTOMA FLORIDANA

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Meaning:

Large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States

Synonyms:

eastern woodrat; Neotoma floridana

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Neotoma floridana" is a kind of...):

wood-rat; 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 ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks))

Holonyms ("Neotoma floridana" is a member of...):

genus Neotoma; Neotoma (packrats)

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