Akademik

trade rat

noun

any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects

• Syn: ↑packrat, ↑pack rat, ↑bushytail woodrat, ↑Neotoma cinerea

• Hypernyms: ↑wood rat, ↑wood-rat

• Hyponyms: ↑dusky-footed woodrat, ↑Neotoma fuscipes

• Member Holonyms: ↑Neotoma, ↑genus Neotoma

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noun

Etymology: so called from its habit of replacing with some other article any article it takes away

: pack rat

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trade rat,

= pack rat (def. 1). (Cf. ↑pack rat)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.