Any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico; largest members of the family Heteromyidae.
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Examples for "kangaroo rat"
Examples for "kangaroo rat"
1The smaller kinds, the wallaby and kangaroo rat, are common everywhere on the continent.
2We did not see any kangaroos , but got a kangaroo rat and a bandicoot.
3No game, except a kangaroo rat, pigeons, ducks, and mutton-birds.
4But the kangaroo rat, it proved, was no such unknown animal; and my discovery was nothing.
5Our dogs caught a female kangaroo with a young one in its pouch, and a kangaroo rat.
1Could've been some desert rat, likes living out where there aren't phones, electricity.
2That's why I've degenerated from a perfectly matriculated mining engineer into a wandering desert rat.
3Conrad said he called Sovereign Hill to tell 'em they got a desert rat kangaroo runnin' around the grounds.
4But I have also seen them eat the big lizards of the desert and the jerboas-a sort of desert rat.
5Here's Bob, just a plain young desert rat, a-dreamin' an' a-romancin' over the country, while this Carey is a solid citizen.
Translations for Dipodomys phillipsii