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Pack rat   Listen
noun
pack rat, packrat  n.  
1.
Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America, especially Neotoma cinerea, which hoard food and other objects in their nests.
Synonyms: trade rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea.
2.
A person who habitually saves items, even those unlikely to be useful. (Informal)





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"Pack rat" Quotes from Famous Books



... told him, "you can't stay here. You'd starve to death like that poor devil that some prospectors found in that gulch yonder—turned to dusty bones, with a pack rat's nest in his chest and a rock under his head. You'd just ...
— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb


Words linked to "Pack rat" :   scavenger, Neotoma, packrat, wood rat, genus Neotoma, Neotoma fuscipes, wood-rat, dusky-footed woodrat


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