"bamboo rat" meaning in English

See bamboo rat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: bamboo rats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bamboo rat (plural bamboo rats)
  1. Any of the four species of burrowing rodents in the spalacid tribe Rhizomyini, found in China and southeast Asia Categories (lifeform): Rodents Derived forms: Chinese bamboo rat (taxonomic: Rhizomys sinensis), hoary bamboo rat (taxonomic: Rhizomys pruinosus), Sumatran bamboo rat, Indomalayan bamboo rat, large bamboo rat (taxonomic: Rhizomys sumatrensis), lesser bamboo rat (taxonomic: Cannomys badius) Translations (rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys): ပွေး (pwe:) (Burmese), 竹鼠 (zuk¹ syu²) (Chinese Cantonese), 竹鼠 (zhúshǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), bambumyllikäs (Finnish), rat des bambous [masculine] (French), dekan (Indonesian), ratto del bambù [masculine] (Italian), ອົ້ນ (ʼon) (Lao), dekan (Malay), တန် (Mon), ဢူၼ်ႈ (ʼūun) (Shan), อ้น (ôn) (Thai), dúi (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bamboo rat meaning in English (3.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bamboo rats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bamboo rat (plural bamboo rats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rodents",
          "orig": "en:Rodents",
          "parents": [
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "taxonomic": "Rhizomys sinensis",
          "word": "Chinese bamboo rat"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Rhizomys pruinosus",
          "word": "hoary bamboo rat"
        },
        {
          "word": "Sumatran bamboo rat"
        },
        {
          "word": "Indomalayan bamboo rat"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Rhizomys sumatrensis",
          "word": "large bamboo rat"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Cannomys badius",
          "word": "lesser bamboo rat"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the four species of burrowing rodents in the spalacid tribe Rhizomyini, found in China and southeast Asia"
      ],
      "id": "en-bamboo_rat-en-noun-KgTjraKU",
      "links": [
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ],
        [
          "rodent",
          "rodent"
        ],
        [
          "spalacid",
          "spalacid"
        ],
        [
          "tribe",
          "tribe"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "pwe:",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "ပွေး"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "zuk¹ syu²",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "竹鼠"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhúshǔ",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "竹鼠"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "bambumyllikäs"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "rat des bambous"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "dekan"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ratto del bambù"
        },
        {
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "ʼon",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "ອົ້ນ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "dekan"
        },
        {
          "code": "mnw",
          "lang": "Mon",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "တန်"
        },
        {
          "code": "shn",
          "lang": "Shan",
          "roman": "ʼūun",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "ဢူၼ်ႈ"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "ôn",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "อ้น"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
          "word": "dúi"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bamboo rat"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "taxonomic": "Rhizomys sinensis",
      "word": "Chinese bamboo rat"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Rhizomys pruinosus",
      "word": "hoary bamboo rat"
    },
    {
      "word": "Sumatran bamboo rat"
    },
    {
      "word": "Indomalayan bamboo rat"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Rhizomys sumatrensis",
      "word": "large bamboo rat"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Cannomys badius",
      "word": "lesser bamboo rat"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bamboo rats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bamboo rat (plural bamboo rats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (tribe)",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Rodents"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the four species of burrowing rodents in the spalacid tribe Rhizomyini, found in China and southeast Asia"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ],
        [
          "rodent",
          "rodent"
        ],
        [
          "spalacid",
          "spalacid"
        ],
        [
          "tribe",
          "tribe"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "pwe:",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "ပွေး"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "zuk¹ syu²",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "竹鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhúshǔ",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "竹鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "bambumyllikäs"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rat des bambous"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "dekan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ratto del bambù"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "ʼon",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "ອົ້ນ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "dekan"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnw",
      "lang": "Mon",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "တန်"
    },
    {
      "code": "shn",
      "lang": "Shan",
      "roman": "ʼūun",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "ဢူၼ်ႈ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "ôn",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "อ้น"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys",
      "word": "dúi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bamboo rat"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.