packrat

Speech parts

1. packrat - Noun

2. packrat - Verb

Meaning

any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects

a collector of miscellaneous useless objects

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

pack rat bushytail woodrat Neotoma cinerea trade rat gatherer picker maniac magpie stalker collector accumulator scavenger fussy babbler hoarder
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Antonyms

giver

Hypernyms

collector aggregator wood rat

Hyponyms

dusky-footed woodrat Neotoma fuscipes

Examples

Any PEG can be parsed in linear time by using a packrat parser, as described above. Source: Internet

But the 68-year-old Giles is no typical packrat. Source: Internet

She appears to be a worse packrat even than I am, and I have at least two t-shirts that I still wear touting causes from the Seventies. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

packmate packmule packraft packrattery packsack packsaddle