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cotton rats

cotton rats is the plural of cotton rat.

Meaning of cotton rat

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.

Questions about cotton rats

What is cotton rats the plural of?
Cotton rats is the plural of cotton rat.

Words near cotton rats in the dictionary

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

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