| 单词 | indian rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian rat Indian rat n. now historical and rare = Indian mouse n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Herpestidae > genus Herpestes (mongoose) ichneumon1572 rat of Inde1601 Pharaoh's rat1605 Indian mouse1607 Pharaoh's mouse1607 Indian rat1613 mongoose1673 mungo1752 vansire1774 yellow mongoose1917 1613 R. Dallington Aphorismes Ciuill & Militarie 71 While the Crocodile sleepes gaping with open mouth, the Indian Ratt shootes himselfe into his belly, and gnawes his guts in sunder. 1742 C. Owen Nat. Hist. Serpents i. iii. 10 In form it resembles an over-grown Rat, and is called the Indian-Rat, and Pharaoh's Rat. 1951 J. Bowle Hobbes & his Critics vi. 118 He cites the vulnerability of the elephant to the mouse, which runs up its trunk and eats its brain so that the animal dies mad, and the story of the Indian rat and the crocodile. < as lemmas |
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