rice rat

rice rat
noun
hardy agile rat of grassy marshes of Mexico and the southeastern United States
Syn: ↑Oryzomys palustris
Hypernyms: ↑rat
Member Holonyms: ↑Oryzomys, ↑genus Oryzomys

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noun or rice mouse
: any of various cricetid rats (genus Oryzomys) abundant in moist or swampy areas from New Jersey to Venezuela; especially : a rodent (O. palustris) of the southeastern United States that greatly resembles the Norway rat

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any rat of the genus Oryzomys, having an exceptionally long tail, esp. O. palustris, inhabiting rice fields and marshes of the southern U.S., Mexico, and Central America.
[1880-85]

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rice rat,
a gray or brownish rat of the southern United States and Mexico, found especially in wet, grassy areas.

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n. a nocturnal rat that typically lives in marshy or damp areas, native to America, the Caribbean, and the Galapagos Islands. Oryzomys and other genera, family Muridae: numerous species

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