wood-rat

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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)wood ratgnawer, rodent - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawingCricetidae, family Cricetidae - mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamstersdusky-footed wood rat - a wood rat with dusky feetfield mouse, vole - 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 meadowsbushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, trade rat, pack rat, packrat - any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objectseastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana - large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States