Hamster's wild cousin

• Some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
• Any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur gray above and white below with well-furred tails and large ears
• Bushy-tailed hoarder

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A packrat (kind of rodent).