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Meanings of brown rat in inglês
português
rato-marrom The common rat, Rattus norvegicus, often used as an experimental organism.
Synonyms
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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When he returned he opened the box only to find a nest of Norwegian rats in his beautiful drawings.
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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.
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Completion of the Rattus norvegicus genome sequence enabled a global inventory and analysis of the nuclear receptors (NRs) in three mammalian species.
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Although many wild and domestic animals can serve as reservoir hosts, the brown rat ( Rattus norvegicus) is the most important source of human infections.
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A total of 36 weaning rats ( Rattus norvegicus) were divided into 6 groups of six animals and exposed to lead acetate for six weeks.
Usage of brown rat in inglês
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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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A brown rat stepped out into the light.
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The barn owl's favourite prey is, he tells us, the brown rat and the wood mouse.
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It was supposed by Pallas that the brown rat crossed over into Russia about the year 1727.
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As he sat back, the curves softened, and, as far as brown rat could be, he was imposing.
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He is a brown rat.
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Last year the first victim of climate change was the Bramble Cay melomys known as the little brown rat.
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I have no doubt that this also is the case with the brown rat, and aids in keeping down its numbers.
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At a sudden shrieking I whirled: half a dozen wailing cats hurled themselves about my feet and fled after a brown rat.
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The brown rat of India is identical with that of Europe, most naturalists being now agreed that it originally came from the East.
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The black rats dashed into the hole like flickering streaks, but the brown rat had instantly spun upon himself, and was after them.
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Firstly, the brown rat, having hidden up in some black corner, with brown-rat cunning, came hopping out instantly-nay ,charging- ontheblackrat's trail.
This collocation consists of:
Brown rat across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common