dusky-footed wood rat

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   a wood rat with dusky feet

   Broaderwood rat

Questions about dusky-footed wood rat

What does dusky-footed wood rat mean?

dusky-footed wood rat means "a wood rat with dusky feet".

Is dusky-footed wood rat a common word?

dusky-footed wood 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.