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Pack rat   /pæk ræt/   Listen
Pack rat

noun
1.
Someone who collects things that have been discarded by others.  Synonyms: magpie, scavenger.
2.
Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects.  Synonyms: bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, packrat, trade rat.






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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

... Pack Rat, or Trading Rat. Although I have met this wonderful creature (Neotoma) in various places on its native soil, I will quote from another and perfectly reliable observer a sample narrative of its startling mental traits. At Oak Lodge, east coast of Florida, we lived for a time in the home ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday



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