wood_rat (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *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