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COTTON RAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America
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Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cotton rat" is a kind of...):
gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Holonyms ("cotton rat" is a member of...):
genus Sigmodon; Sigmodon (American cotton rats)