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EASTERN WOODRAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eastern woodrat mean?
• EASTERN WOODRAT (noun)
The noun EASTERN WOODRAT has 1 sense:
1. large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States
Familiarity information: EASTERN WOODRAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
eastern woodrat; Neotoma floridana
Hypernyms ("eastern woodrat" is a kind of...):
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; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks))
Holonyms ("eastern woodrat" is a member of...):
genus Neotoma; Neotoma (packrats)
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