Definition of "bushytail woodrat" []

• Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The pika and the bushytail woodrat and the northern water shrew found themselves stranded—just as the brown bandicoot and the wombat had been stranded, at about the same time, on those land-bridge islands between mainland Australia and Tasmania."