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roof rats

roof rats is the plural of roof rat.

Meaning of roof rat

Noun

roof rat (plural roof rats)

  1. The black rat.
    • A large roof rat ran from the overflowing bins and disappeared under the house.2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 308

Questions about roof rats

What is roof rats the plural of?
Roof rats is the plural of roof rat.

Words near roof rats in the dictionary

  1. roof rack
  2. roof racks
  3. roof rake
  4. roof rakes
  5. roof rat
  6. roof rats
  7. roof riding
  8. roof square
  9. roof squares
  10. roof tax
  11. roof taxes

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