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bushrat

bushrat is the alternative form 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.

Forms of bushrat

pluralbushrats

Questions about bushrat

What is bushrat the alternative form of?
Bushrat is the alternative form of bush rat.

Words near bushrat in the dictionary

  1. bushranged
  2. bushranger
  3. bushrangers
  4. bushranges
  5. bushranging
  6. bushrat
  7. bushrats
  8. bushrope
  9. bushropes
  10. bushrue
  11. bushrues

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