packrat

English Thesaurus

1. any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	wood rat, wood-rat,
definition	:	any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	dusky-footed woodrat, neotoma fuscipes,
definition	:	host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus neotoma, neotoma,
definition	:	packrats (noun.animal)

2. a collector of miscellaneous useless objects (noun.person)

hypernym	:	aggregator, collector,
definition	:	a person who collects things (noun.person)