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GENUS NEOTOMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Packrats
Synonyms:
genus Neotoma; Neotoma
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Neotoma" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "genus Neotoma"):
bushytail woodrat; Neotoma cinerea; pack rat; packrat; trade rat (any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects)
dusky-footed woodrat; Neotoma fuscipes (host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California)
eastern woodrat; Neotoma floridana (large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States)
Holonyms ("genus Neotoma" is a member of...):
Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)
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