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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any species of Neotoma, including large woodland rats of the United States, etc., of the family Nuridæ, subfamily Murinæ, and section Sigmodontes, such as the Florida wood-rat, N. floridana; the Rocky Mountain wood-rat, N. cinerea; the California wood-rat, N. fuscipes; the Texas wood-rat, N. micropus; the ferrugineous wood-rat of Mexico and Central America, N. ferruginea. See
pack-rat (under rat), and cut underNeotoma .
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- 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)
- 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)
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