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bush rats

bush rats is the plural of bush rat.

Meaning of bush rat

Noun

bush rat (plural bush rats)

  1. (Australia) Any of various rat-sized rodents and marsupials, especially local species of Rattus.
    • The noise ceased the moment I crawled into the attic, but something was rotten in the roof, and a putrid smell and pyramids of chewed cardboard suggested that possums or bush rats had nested in boxes stacked with the previous owner's red and yellow moodscapes.2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 18
  2. The rodent, Rattus fuscipes, of coastal eastern and southern Australia.

Questions about bush rats

What is bush rats the plural of?
Bush rats is the plural of bush rat.

Words near bush rats in the dictionary

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