- wood rat, wood-rat - any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur gray above and white below with well-furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
--1 is a kind of rodent, gnawer, gnawing animal
--1 is a member of Cricetidae, family Cricetidae
--1 has particulars:vole, field mouse; packrat, pack rat, trade rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea; eastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana