"packrats" in the noun sense
1. packrat
a collector of miscellaneous useless objects
2. packrat, pack rat, trade rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea
any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America hoards food and other objects
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