ABSP - Rodents

Rodents

acouchi acouchy	a relative of the AGOUTI. [Tupi acuchy]. Pl. ACOUCHIS, ACOUCHIES.
agouti agouty aguti	a small S. American rodent related to the guinea-pig.
arvicole	a mouse of the genus Arvicola; the field mouse. [L. arvum, a field + colere, to inhabit].
arvicoline	of or like a field mouse.
bandicoot	a species of very large rat, found in India and Ceylon; (verb) to remove potatoes from the ground leaving the tops undisturbed. [Telugu pandikokku, pig-rat].
beaver	an amphibious rodent; (verb) to toil industriously.
biscacha bizcacha viscacha vizcacha	a gregarious burrowing S. American rodent related to the chinchilla.
bobac bobak	a species of marmot.
capybara	a large S. American rodent.
cavy	a kind of South American rodent.
chickaree	the American red squirrel, so called from its cry.
chinchilla	a S. American rodent of the genus Chinchilla, with very soft grey fur.
chipmuck chipmunk	a mainly terrestrial squirrel of N America and parts of Asia, with dark stripes on the back and cheek pouches for storing and carrying food.
coypou coypu	a large S. American rodent, the source of nutria fur.
cricetid	a member of the Cricetidae, a family of rodents including gerbils.
degu	A small rodent native to Chile, aka Brush-Tailed Rat.
dormouse	any member of the Myoxidae, a family of rodents related to mice but somewhat squirrel-like in form and habit > DORMICE.
fieldmouse fieldvole	a name for various species of mouse and vole that live in the fields > FIELDMICE, FIELDVOLES.
flickertail	a N. American ground squirrel.
geomyoid	belonging to the pouched rats, an American family of burrowing rodents.
gerbil gerbille jerbil	a desert rodent.
gopher	a name in America applied to various burrowing animals, including the pouched rat and the ground squirrel; (verb) to burrow, mine.
groundhog	a common large North American marmot, aka WOODCHUCK.
hackee	the chipmunk; also, the CHICKAREE or red squirrel.
hampster hamster	a small Eurasian rodent.
hutia	a W. Indian rodent, aka hog-rat.
jerboa	a desert rodent that jumps on long legs like a kangaroo. [Arabic yarbu].
jird	a N African gerbil.
kiore	(Maori) a small brown rat native to New Zealand.
lemming	a small short-tailed Arctic rodent.
loir	a large European dormouse.
mara	a large rodent, like a CAVY, found in Patagonia.
marmot	a kind of rodent.
molerat	a name for several burrowing rodents.
mouse	also a verb: to catch mice: hence MOUSES is valid.
mouselike	like a mouse.
mousie mousekin	a little mouse.
murid murine	belonging to the rats and mice family of rodents.
muriform	resembling a mouse or rat.
muskrat musquash	a large semi-aquatic N. American rodent, resembling a beaver.
nutria	the COYPU, or its fur.
paca	a South American rodent, the spotted CAVY.
porcupine	a large spiny rodent of various kinds.
porcupinish+ porcupiny	like a porcupine.
porpentine	a Shakespearean word for porcupine.
rat
ratlike	like a rat.
rattish	like a rat.
ratton rottan rotten	a rat. Worth remembering that ROTTEN, therefore, takes an —S hook.
scaletail	a type of squirrel.
sciurid	a member of the squirrel family.
sciurine sciuroid	of or relating to squirrels or chipmunks.
sewellel	the mountain beaver, a squirrel-like burrowing rodent of NW coastal regions of N. America. [Chinook shewallal, a robe of its skin].
souslik suslik	a ground squirrel.
spermophile	a member of family of seed-loving rodents.
springhaas	a S. African nocturnal rodent > SPRINGHAAS or SPRINGHASE.
squirrel	also a verb: to store away, hide > SQUIRRELED/SQUIRRELLED.
squirrely	like a squirrel.
taguan	a giant flying squirrel of SE Asia.
tucotuco tucutuco tucutucu	an American rodent of mole-like habits.
urson	the Canadian porcupine.
viscacha	see BISCACHA.
viscachera	a settlement of VISCACHAS.
vole	any of numerous blunt-nosed, short-eared, mouselike or ratlike rodents, including the so-called water rat and some fieldmice.
woodchuck	a common large North American marmot, aka GROUNDHOG.
woodmouse	a mouse living in woodland.
woodrat	another name for the pack-rat.
xerus	an African squirrel > XERUSES.
zizel	the ground-squirrel. [Ger. Ziesel, chipmunk].

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