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    PACKRAT

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    bushytail woodrat; Neotoma cinerea; pack rat; packrat; trade rat

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("packrat" is a kind of...):

    wood-rat; wood rat (any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks))

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

    dusky-footed woodrat; Neotoma fuscipes (host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California)

    Holonyms ("packrat" is a member of...):

    genus Neotoma; Neotoma (packrats)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A collector of miscellaneous useless objectsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("packrat" is a kind of...):

    aggregator; collector (a person who collects things)

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