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Meanings of norwegian rat in English
The common rat, Rattus norvegicus, often used as an experimental organism.
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Examples for "norway rat"
Examples for "norway rat"
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Preliminary Survey of Ectoparasites and Associated Pathogens from Norway Rats in New York City.
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She screamed piercingly as a blackish-brown Norway rat tumbled out almost into her face.
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He is sometimes called the Norway Rat and sometimes the Wharf Rat and House Rat.
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Donor Lewis rats islets were transplanted under the kidney capsule in diabetic Brown Norway rats.
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Norway rats are an abundant synanthropic species in urban settings and serve as reservoirs for many pathogens.
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At first I regarded him as merely an ordinary intrusive brown rat.
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Appearances were undoubtedly against the brown rat, but it knew something of tactics.
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As he crept beneath it, he heard the brown rat scream.
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The trek was headed by an old brown rat.
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If so, you don't know the cruel devil of perseverance that is the brown rat.
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How would you know what a wharf rat looks like?
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I told you, I wasn't wearing my spectacles and he looked just like a wharf rat runnin' through the kitchen.
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He couldn't tell the world that Mr. Wharf Rat was a thief.
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Sometimes these wharf rats are captured in the act, when fierce fights ensue.
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The Hannah was a river boat and not a dive for wharf rats.
Usage of norwegian rat in English
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When he returned he opened the box only to find a nest of Norwegian rats in his beautiful drawings.