wood-rat (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *wood-rat*:
NOUN	animal	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

English > *wood-rat*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
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).
Synonym	wood rat
Member of	Cricetidae, family Cricetidae	Mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters
Narrower	dusky-footed wood rat	A wood rat with dusky feet
	eastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana	large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States
	packrat, pack rat, trade rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea	Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America
	vole, field mouse	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
Broader	rodent, gnawer	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

HyperDic: wood-rat