| 单词 | white rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite rat white rat n. an albino rat; (in later use) spec. an albino strain of the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus, bred for use as a laboratory animal or as a pet; a rat of such a strain; also in extended use and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Rattus (rat) > other types of rat1552 white rat1607 kiore1838 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 519 Sometimes you shal see white Rats, as was once seene in Germany, taken in the middle of Aprill, hauing very red eyes standing forth of their head. 1850 J. Rodwell Rat i. 10 A colony of white rats was lately discovered in the Ainsworth Colliery. 1903 J. B. Watson Animal Educ. 5 In the fall of 1901 the writer undertook..to make a study of the psychical development of the white rat in correlation with the growth of its nervous system. 2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies iii. 70 Earwigs have become something of a white rat of the insect world for studies of reproductive physiology. < as lemmas |
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