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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wood rat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | wood-rat |
| Type of | gnawer, rodent |
| Has types | eastern woodrat, field mouse, vole, dusky-footed wood rat, trade rat, bushytail woodrat, neotoma cinerea, neotoma floridana, pack rat, packrat |
Examples of wood rat
wood rat
Anything larger than a dusky-footed wood rat, and I'm someone's breakfast.
From the sacbee.com
You may see huge wood rat nests, made up of shiny objects and other debris, on the ground.
From the sfgate.com
Biologists worry this could affect the owl, as the dusky-footed wood rat feeds on acorns.
From the sacbee.com
I scurry through like a scared dusky-footed wood rat.
From the sacbee.com
Look for the huge wood rat nests made up of mounds of twigs and branches, and for the lizards scurrying across the trails.
From the sfgate.com
In California, the northern spotted owl's primary prey is the dusky-footed wood rat, which lives in younger forests, Diller said.
From the sacbee.com
Pythons and other reptiles of concern, he said, can threaten endangered native species, such as the Key Largo wood rat and nesting water birds.
From the orlandosentinel.com
In North Texas, doctors suspect that the process leading to human infection begins when a sand fly bites a rodent called the burrowing wood rat, which carries the parasite.
From the sciencedaily.com
He said this may be due to a movement in either the burrowing wood rat or the sand flies that transmit the infection to humans, although the reason for this movement is unclear.
From the sciencedaily.com
