bush rat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of wood rat, Neotoma cinerea.

Quotations

1921

When they rose, thirty-six dead bush rats lay in a heap directly under the hole in the roof.

1966

The air was so dank and musty smelling that even the bush rats forsook the cabin.