cotton rat
noun
: any of a genus (Sigmodon) of small-eared, omnivorous rats that are found chiefly in grassy habitats from the U.S. and Mexico to Brazil, are sometimes destructive to crops (such as cotton, alfalfa, and corn), and have S-shaped molars see hispid cotton rat
Word History
First Known Use
1835, in the meaning defined above
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