1. A collector of miscellaneous useless objects 
2. Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
   - pack rat, trade rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea

1. Someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
   - magpie, scavenger

Derived forms: packrats, pack rats

Type of: aggregator, collector, hoarder, wood rat, wood-rat

Part of: genus Neotoma, Neotoma

Encyclopedia: Pack rat

• honor guard
• honor killing
• honor system
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• subclass Holocephali
• subclass Homobasidiomycetes
• subclass Infusoria
• subclass Lepidosauria
• subclass Liliidae
• subclass Magnoliidae
• subclass Malacostraca
• subclass Metatheria
• subclass Ophiurida
• subclass Opisthobranchia
• subclass Ostracoda
• subclass Pantotheria
• subclass Phytomastigina
• subclass Prototheria
• subclass Rhizopoda
• subclass Rosidae
• subclass Selachii
• subclass Synapsida
• subclass Teleostei
• subclass Telosporidia
• subclass Zoomastigina