wood-rat

Noun wood-rat has 1 sense

• wood-rat(n = noun.animal) 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);
is a kind of gnawer, rodent
is a member of cricetidae, family cricetidae
has particulars: dusky-footed wood rat, field mouse, vole, bushytail woodrat, neotoma cinerea, pack rat, packrat, trade rat, eastern woodrat, neotoma floridana