"Brattleboro" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: From Brattle + -boro, named after Major-General William Brattle. Etymology templates: {{af|en|Brattle|-boro}} Brattle + -boro Head templates: {{en-prop}} Brattleboro
  1. A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. Categories (place): Places in Vermont, USA, Places in the United States, Towns in Vermont, USA, Towns in the United States Synonyms: Brattleborough [archaic]
    Sense id: en-Brattleboro-en-name-FCspK37T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -boro, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: Brattleboros [plural]
Etymology: The strain was developed by Henry Schroeder and technician Tim Vinton in West Brattleboro, Vermont, beginning in 1961, for Dartmouth Medical School. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Brattleboro (plural Brattleboros)
  1. A kind of rat used in medical research, having a naturally-occurring genetic mutation that prevents it from producing vasopressin.
    Sense id: en-Brattleboro-en-noun-ppak9eqV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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