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WOOD-RAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
wood-rat; wood rat
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wood-rat" is a kind of...):
gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood-rat"):
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; pack rat; packrat; trade rat (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)
Holonyms ("wood-rat" is a member of...):
Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)
