neotoma cinerea

Questions about neotoma cinerea

What does neotoma cinerea mean?

neotoma cinerea means "any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects".

What is another word for neotoma cinerea?

Close synonyms include packrat, pack rat, trade rat, bushytail woodrat. 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 neotoma cinerea a common word?

neotoma cinerea 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.