DCHP-1 Online

wood rat

• 1 Obs. an aquatic rodent, Ondatra zibethica, common to many parts of North America and widely trapped for its valuable fur.

  See also: muskrat (def. 1)  

• 2 a rat of the genus Neotoma whose habitat is the bush, as the bushy-tailed wood rat.

  See also: bushy-tailed wood rat