trade rat

Questions about trade rat

What does trade rat mean?

trade rat 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 trade rat?

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

trade rat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.