Definitions for kangaroo-rat

kangaroo-rat kangaroo rat

Kangaroo-Rat is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in kangaroo-rat (-aaagknoorrt).

Definitions for kangaroo-rat

noun

  1. any of various small jumping rodents of the family Heteromyidae, of Mexico and the western U.S.
  2. an Australian desert rodent of the genus Notomys.

Origin of kangaroo-rat

First recorded in 1780-90

Examples for kangaroo-rat

Life history of the kangaroo rat, Dipodomys spectabilis spectabilis Merriam.

Our dogs caught a female kangaroo with a young one in its pouch, and a kangaroo rat.

In this work the authors have made no attempt to deal with the taxonomic side of the kangaroo rat problem.

Accounts of these four mammals and of a previously unnamed subspecies of kangaroo rat on Mustang Island, Texas, follow.

Probably no instinct is of greater importance to the kangaroo rat than that of storing food supplies.

We did not see any kangaroos, but got a kangaroo rat and a bandicoot.

Mr. O'Connor saw a child, eight years old, eat a kangaroo rat, and attack a cray-fish.

But the kangaroo rat, it proved, was no such unknown animal; and my discovery was nothing.

The ground squirrel and kangaroo rat were found by us on only the sandy areas where there were xerophitic shrubs.

But the kangaroo rat, it proved, was no such unknown animal; and my discovery was nothing.

Word Value for kangaroo-rat
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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