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POUCHED RAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pouched rat mean?
• POUCHED RAT (noun)
The noun POUCHED RAT has 1 sense:
1. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
Familiarity information: POUCHED RAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gopher; pocket gopher; pouched rat
Hypernyms ("pouched rat" is a kind of...):
pocket rat (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pouched rat"):
Geomys bursarius; plains pocket gopher (gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America)
Geomys pinetis; southeastern pocket gopher (gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida)
Thomomys bottae; valley pocket gopher (of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States)
northern pocket gopher; Thomomys talpoides (greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States)
Holonyms ("pouched rat" is a member of...):
family Geomyidae; Geomyidae (North American pocket gophers)
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