desert rat

What does desert rat mean?

desert rat means "any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico; largest members of the family Heteromyidae".

What is another word for desert rat?

Close synonyms include kangaroo rat, Dipodomys phillipsii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is desert rat a common word?

desert rat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for desert rat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.