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'rat

'rat is the ellipsis of muskrat.

Meaning of muskrat

Noun

muskrat (plural muskrats)

  1. A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini.
    • He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187.
    Synonyms:
    musquash, ondatra, 'rat, rat
  2. Any of several shrews in the family Soricidae, especially an Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus).
  3. (obsolete) A bandicoot rat.

Forms of 'rat

plural'rats

Questions about 'rat

What is 'rat the ellipsis of?
'rat is the ellipsis of muskrat.

Words near 'rat in the dictionary

  1. 'RA
  2. 'Rado
  3. 'rales
  4. 'rari
  5. 'raris
  6. 'rat
  7. 'rats
  8. 're
  9. 'rents
  10. 'rest
  11. 'rhoids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 'rat (page history and authors); muskrat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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