wood rat

1. 1.

   any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

   Synonymswood-rat

   Broaderrodent

   Narrowerdusky-footed wood ratvolepackrateastern woodrat

   Part ofCricetidae

Questions about wood rat

What does wood rat mean?

wood rat means "any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)".

What is another word for wood rat?

Close synonyms include wood-rat. 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 wood rat a common word?

wood 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.