noun
- Any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico; largest members of the family Heteromyidae.
- synonyms: desert rat, Dipodomys phillipsii
- Any of several rabbit-sized ratlike Australian kangaroos.
- synonyms: rat kangaroo
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