PACKRAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does packrat mean? 

• PACKRAT (noun)
  The noun PACKRAT has 2 senses:

1. a collector of miscellaneous useless objects

2. any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects

  Familiarity information: PACKRAT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACKRAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collector of miscellaneous useless objects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("packrat" is a kind of...):

aggregator; collector (a person who collects things)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bushytail woodrat; Neotoma cinerea; pack rat; packrat; trade rat

Hypernyms ("packrat" 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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "packrat"):

dusky-footed woodrat; Neotoma fuscipes (host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California)

Holonyms ("packrat" is a member of...):

genus Neotoma; Neotoma (packrats)