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Brattleboro

Brattleboro proper noun: a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.

Proper noun

Brattleboro

  1. A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.

Noun

Brattleboro (plural Brattleboros)

  1. A kind of rat used in medical research, having a naturally-occurring genetic mutation that prevents it from producing vasopressin.
    • Vasopressin is not detectable in the posterior pituitary of the homozygous Brattleboros.1978, M. A. Corner, International Summer School of Brain Research, Maturation of the Nervous System: Proceedings (page 329)

Forms of Brattleboro

Proper noun
alternative formBrattleborough
Noun
pluralBrattleboros

Origin of Brattleboro

From Brattle + -boro, named after Major-General William Brattle.

The strain was developed by Henry Schroeder and technician Tim Vinton in West Brattleboro, Vermont, beginning in 1961, for Dartmouth Medical School.

Words formed from Brattleboro

Questions about Brattleboro

What does Brattleboro mean?
Brattleboro means a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.
What part of speech is Brattleboro?
Brattleboro can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Brattleboro in the dictionary

  1. brattishings
  2. brattishly
  3. brattishness
  4. brattitude
  5. brattle
  6. Brattleboro
  7. Brattleboros
  8. brattled
  9. brattles
  10. brattling
  11. brattlings

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