rice rat


noun
  1. any rat of the genus Oryzomys, having an exceptionally long tail, especially O. palustris, inhabiting rice fields and marshes of the southern U.S., Mexico, and Central America.

Origin of rice rat

1
First recorded in 1880–85

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