cotton rats

A form of cotton rat — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of cotton rat
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