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Kangaroo rat   /kˌæŋgərˈu ræt/   Listen
Kangaroo rat

noun
1.
Any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico; largest members of the family Heteromyidae.  Synonyms: desert rat, Dipodomys phillipsii.
2.
Any of several rabbit-sized ratlike Australian kangaroos.  Synonym: rat kangaroo.



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"Kangaroo rat" Quotes from Famous Books



... heart long quiet, and all warm with sunshine. His long hind legs were stiff, his tiny forepaws clutched upon his breast, as if to leap; his poor life cut short upon that mountain by some unknown accident. But the Kangaroo rat, it proved, was no such unknown animal; and my ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 2 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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