COTTON RAT

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Meaning:

Destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America

Synonyms:

cotton rat; Sigmodon hispidus

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Nouns denoting animals

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)

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