Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wood_rat

1 sense of wood rat

Sense 1
wood rat, wood-rat -- (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))
       => rodent, gnawer -- (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)