| 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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