WOOD-RAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood-rat mean? 

• WOOD-RAT (noun)
  The noun WOOD-RAT has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: WOOD-RAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD-RAT (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)

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

wood-rat; wood rat

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)