NEOTOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Neotoma mean? 

• NEOTOMA (noun)
  The noun NEOTOMA has 1 sense:

1. packrats

  Familiarity information: NEOTOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEOTOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Packrats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Neotoma; Neotoma

Hypernyms ("Neotoma" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Neotoma"):

bushytail woodrat; Neotoma cinerea; pack rat; packrat; trade rat (any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects)

dusky-footed woodrat; Neotoma fuscipes (host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California)

eastern woodrat; Neotoma floridana (large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States)

Holonyms ("Neotoma" is a member of...):

Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)