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cotton rat

cotton rat noun: any member of the rodent genus Sigmodon, that build their nests from cotton, and can damage cotton crops, found from the southwestern US to Surinam, Brazil, and Peru.

Noun

cotton rat (plural cotton rats)

  1. Any member of the rodent genus Sigmodon, that build their nests from cotton, and can damage cotton crops, found from the southwestern US to Surinam, Brazil, and Peru.

Forms of cotton rat

pluralcotton rats

Words formed from cotton rat

  • hispid cotton rat

Questions about cotton rat

What does cotton rat mean?
Cotton rat means any member of the rodent genus Sigmodon, that build their nests from cotton, and can damage cotton crops, found from the southwestern US to Surinam, Brazil, and Peru.
What part of speech is cotton rat?
Cotton rat is a noun.
What is the plural of cotton rat?
The plural of cotton rat is cotton rats.

Words near cotton rat in the dictionary

  1. cotton picker
  2. cotton pickers
  3. cotton pox
  4. cotton pygmy geese
  5. cotton pygmy goose
  6. cotton rat
  7. cotton rats
  8. cotton reel
  9. cotton reels
  10. cotton root rot
  11. cotton scale

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