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单词 black rat
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black rat
black rat n. a cosmopolitan rat, Rattus rattus, with typically dark or black fur, large ears, and a long tail, which is now found chiefly in tropical and subtropical areas; also called ship rat, house rat, roof rat.The black rat is the chief host of the plague-transmitting flea. In South Asia it remains the dominant rat in domestic situations; in most cooler countries it has generally been replaced by the brown rat, R. norvegicus.
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1772 R. Smith Universal Directory Rats (new ed.) 133 The black rat..is the old genuine English House-Rat.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 201 The black rat, so rare in England, is common in Alderney and Herm.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1375 Many of the ‘black rats’ (Rattus rattus) in Britain are actually brown, and many of the ‘brown rats’..are black.
1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xxiv. 347 Transmission from rat to rat and from rat to man is due to two species of rat fleas which parasitize Rattus rattus (black rat) and Rattus alexandrinus (Egyptian rat).
2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields vii. 217 The Black Rat..probably first arrived here with the Romans.
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