wood rat

/ˌwʊd ˈræt/

Other forms: wood rats

Definitions of wood rat

1. noun

   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)
   synonyms: wood-rat

   types:

   dusky-footed wood rat

   a wood rat with dusky feet

   field mouse, vole

   any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows

   Neotoma cinerea, bushytail woodrat, pack rat, packrat, trade rat

   any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects

   Neotoma floridana, eastern woodrat

   large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States

   grasshopper mouse

   insectivorous mouse of western North America

   Neotoma fuscipes, dusky-footed woodrat

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

   Pitymys pinetorum, pine mouse, pine vole

   short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States

   Microtus pennsylvaticus, meadow mouse, meadow vole

   widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada

   Microtus richardsoni, Richardson vole, water vole

   of western North America

   Microtus ochrogaster, prairie vole

   typical vole of the extended prairie region of central United States and southern Canada

   Arvicola amphibius, water rat, water vole

   common large Eurasian vole

   red-backed mouse, redback vole

   any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America

   phenacomys

   any of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States

   type of:

   gnawer, rodent

   relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing