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