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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who collects things that have been discarded by others [syn: magpie, scavenger, pack rat]
2: any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects [syn: packrat, pack rat, trade rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1885 1. wood rat; especially a bushy-tailed rodent (Neotoma cinerea) of western North America that has well-developed cheek pouches and that hoards food and miscellaneous objects 2. a person who collects or hoards especially unneeded items





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