black rat

English

A black rat

Wikispecies

Noun

black rat (plural black rats)

1. A common species of rat, Rattus rattus, originating anciently in Asia but now distributed worldwide.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 272:

     The black rat spread wherever they settled, and so tied was it to Roman habitats that it became extinct in Britain following the Roman withdrawal, only to reappear in Norman times. Thereafter the black rat prospered - until the arrival of the larger brown rat (also known as the sewer rat or Norway rat), which reached Britain at about the time of the Hanoverian succession in the eighteenth century.

Synonyms

• (Rattus rattus): Asian black rat, house rat, roof rat, ship rat

Translations

Rattus rattus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屋頂鼠／屋顶鼠 (wūdǐngshǔ), 黑鼠 (zh) (hēishǔ)

• Dutch: zwarte rat (nl) f
• Estonian: rott (et)
• Finnish: mustarotta (fi)
• French: rat noir (fr) m
• Greek: μαυροποντικός m (mavropontikós)
• Hungarian: házi patkány
• Italian: ratto nero m
• Korean: 애급쥐 (aegeupjwi)
• Polish: szczur śniady m
• Romanian: șobolan negru m, șobolan de casă m
• Russian: чёрная кры́са f (čórnaja krýsa)
• Spanish: rata de campo f, rata negra f
• Swedish: svartråtta c
• Tagalog: dagang-bahay
• Wolof: kaña gi (wo)

Anagrams

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