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Noun: wood-rat
  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)
    - wood rat

Derived forms: wood-rats, wood rats

Type of: gnawer, rodent

Part of: Cricetidae, family Cricetidae

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