dusky-footed woodrat

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   host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California

   SynonymsNeotoma fuscipes

   Broaderpackrat

   Part ofNeotoma

Questions about dusky-footed woodrat

What does dusky-footed woodrat mean?

dusky-footed woodrat means "host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California".

What is another word for dusky-footed woodrat?

Close synonyms include Neotoma fuscipes. 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 dusky-footed woodrat a common word?

dusky-footed woodrat 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.