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Noun: trade rat
Usage: N. Amer
  1. Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
    "The trade rat had filled its nest with shiny objects and bits of cactus";
    - pack rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea

Derived forms: trade rats

Type of: wood rat, woodrat

Part of: genus Neotoma, Neotoma

Encyclopedia: Trade rat