English noun: wood rat |
1. | wood rat (animal) 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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| Synonyms | wood-rat |
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| Broader (hypernym) | gnawer, rodent |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bushytail woodrat, dusky-footed wood rat, eastern woodrat, field mouse, Neotoma cinerea, Neotoma floridana, pack rat, packrat, trade rat, vole |
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| Member meronym | Cricetidae, family Cricetidae |
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