| 单词 | mountain rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain rat mountain rat n. †(a) a marmot (obsolete); (b) North American the bushy-tailed woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, of western North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Marmota > marmota marmota (marmot) mouse of the mountain?1583 mountain-mouse1599 marmottane1601 Alpine mouse1607 marmot1607 mountain rat1659 Alpine marmot1771 1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §iii, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) A marmot, or mountain Ratt. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Rat Mountain-rat, the English name of a creature, otherwise called the Marmotte. 1884 M. G. C. Hall Lady's Life on Farm in Manitoba 153 Chipmunks and mountain rats disturbed our slumbers. 1927 C. M. Russell Trails plowed Under 10 The floor's strewn with pine cones..showin' it's been the home of mountain-rats an' squirrels. 1995 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 63 a One day he complained loudly that not even the mountain rats would eat the white flour being sold by town grocers. < as lemmas |
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