WOOD-RAT as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur gray above and white below with well-furred tails and large ears
   • some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
   Synonym(s)
   • wood rat (what does wood rat mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) wood-rat is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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   • gnawer (what does gnawer mean?)
   • gnawing animal (what does gnawing animal mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • vole (what does vole mean?)
   • field mouse (what does field mouse mean?)
   • packrat (what does packrat mean?)
   • pack rat (what does pack rat mean?)
   • trade rat (what does trade rat mean?)
   • bushytail woodrat (what does bushytail woodrat mean?)
   • Neotoma cinerea (what does Neotoma cinerea mean?)
   • eastern woodrat (what does eastern woodrat mean?)
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