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POCKET RAT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various rodents with cheek pouchesplay

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pocket rat" is a kind of...):

rat (any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pocket rat"):

pocket mouse (any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail)

desert rat; Dipodomys phillipsii; kangaroo rat (any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico; largest members of the family Heteromyidae)

dwarf pocket rat; kangaroo mouse (small silky-haired pouched rodent; similar to but smaller than kangaroo rats)

gopher; pocket gopher; pouched rat (burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America)

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