dusky-footed wood rat

Definitions of dusky-footed wood rat
  1. noun
    a wood rat with dusky feet
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    type 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)
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