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Meaning of rice rat

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rice rat

noun

Definitions

  1. A New World rat of the genus Oryzomys,, having an exceptionally long tail.

  2. A rat of the species Oryzomys palustris,, found in rice fields and grassy marshes of Mexico, Central America and the southern United States.