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Noun: cotton rat
  1. Destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America
    "Cotton rats caused significant damage to the sugar cane crops";
    - Sigmodon hispidus

Derived forms: cotton rats

Type of: gnawer, rodent

Part of: genus Sigmodon, Sigmodon

Encyclopedia: Cotton rat