Definition of wood-rat Wood-rat
We found 1 definitions of wood-rat from 1 different sources.
Advertising
What does wood-rat mean?
WordNet
Noun |
||
| 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) | ||
| 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 | ||
| vole, field mouse 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 | ||
= synonym
= antonym
= related word
= antonym
= related word
