white-bellied rat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any rat species of the murid genus Niviventer of Southeast Asia.
Niviventer niviventer, a species of murid found in Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.

Word forms

white-bellied rat white-bellied rats

Etymology

Calque of translingual Niviventer (literally “snow(-white)-belly”) and translingual Niviventer niviventer (a reduplication of the previous term), respectively. By surface analysis, white + bellied + rat

Synonyms

niviventer

Derived words

Anderson's white-bellied rat Brahma white-bellied rat Cameron Highlands white-bellied rat chestnut white-bellied rat Chinese white-bellied rat Coxing's white-bellied rat Hainan white-bellied rat Lang Bian white-bellied rat large white-bellied rat Mekong white-bellied rat montane Sumatran white-bellied rat narrow-tailed white-bellied rat Oldfield white-bellied rat Tenasserim white-bellied rat Tibetan white-bellied rat

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 社鼠 German: Große Himalaya-Weißbauchratte Korean: 흰배쥐

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