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Definition of Cotton rat

1. Noun. Destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotton Rat

Literary usage of Cotton rat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"Like the field mouse of the North, the cotton rat is subject to great variation in ... cotton rat. Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord. Range and much darker, ..."

2. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"Varieties of the cotton rat description as above. 2. ... cotton rat. Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord. Range and much darker, nearly black above finely mixed ..."

3. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1894)
"It contained the skull of a cotton-rat, which had probably fallen a victim to a barred owl. A few days later a small water turtle which had come ashore to ..."

4. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The cotton rat, 5. hispidus, Say & Ord., of the Southern States, is about half as ... The Texas cotton rat, S. Berlandieri, Baird, is of a lighter color, ..."

5. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, SourceOECD (Online service) (1998)
"Effect of vaccination on the induction of enhanced pulmonary pathology upon RSV virus challenge in the cotton rat model Notes: Group 1 : whole inactivated ..."

6. Fire Effects Information System: User’s Guide by William C. Fischer, Melanie Miller, Cameron M. Johnston, Jane K. Smith (1998)
"After 4 years the cotton rat population had decreased sharply. Fire at 3-year intervals would provide optimum habitat for cotton rats as long as adequate ..."

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