pouched rat

Questions about pouched rat

What does pouched rat mean?

pouched rat means "burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America".

What is another word for pouched rat?

Close synonyms include gopher, pocket gopher. 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 pouched rat a common word?

pouched 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.