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wood-rat

DEFINITIONS OF: wood-rat

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n 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)

Synonyms:
wood rat
Types:
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dusky-footed wood rat
a wood rat with dusky feet
field 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 meadows
Neotoma cinerea, bushytail woodrat, pack rat, packrat, trade rat
any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
Neotoma floridana, eastern woodrat
large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States
grasshopper mouse
insectivorous mouse of western North America
Neotoma fuscipes, dusky-footed woodrat
host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California
Pitymys pinetorum, pine mouse, pine vole
short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States
Microtus pennsylvaticus, meadow mouse, meadow vole
widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada
Microtus richardsoni, Richardson vole, water vole
of western North America
Microtus ochrogaster, prairie vole
typical vole of the extended prairie region of central United States and southern Canada
Arvicola amphibius, water rat, water vole
common large Eurasian vole
red-backed mouse, redback vole
any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America
phenacomys
any of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States
Type of:
gnawer, rodent
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
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