"field rat" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: field rats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} field rat (plural field rats)
  1. A rat of any of several species:
    Rattus sordidus (syn. Rattus conatus), a burrowing species that forms underground colonies, found in Australia.
    Wikidata QID: Q1767051 Synonyms: dusky field rat Hypernyms: rat, murid, muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism Coordinate_terms: wharf rat, field mouse, field vole, meadow vole
    Sense id: en-field_rat-en-noun-en:Q1767051
  2. A rat of any of several species:
    Rattus tunneyi, found in a variety of habitats, found in north and eastern Australia.
    Wikidata QID: Q1763602 Synonyms: pale field rat Hypernyms: rat, murid, muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism Coordinate_terms: wharf rat, field mouse, field vole, meadow vole
    Sense id: en-field_rat-en-noun-en:Q1763602
  3. A rat of any of several species:
    Rattus nitidus.
    Wikidata QID: Q1618989 Synonyms: Himalayan field rat Hypernyms: rat, murid, muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism Coordinate_terms: wharf rat, field mouse, field vole, meadow vole
    Sense id: en-field_rat-en-noun-en:Q1618989
  4. A rat of any of several species:
    Rattus exulans, found in the Pacific islands and the third most numerous rat species on Earth.
    Wikidata QID: Q339418 Synonyms: Polynesian rat, Pacific rat, kiore, Maori rat Hypernyms: rat, murid, muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism Coordinate_terms: wharf rat, field mouse, field vole, meadow vole
    Sense id: en-field_rat-en-noun-en:Q339418 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 15 12 27 16 10 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 16 12 28 16 9 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 16 12 28 16 9 9
  5. A rat of any of several species:
    Rattus argentiventer, found in the tropics.
    Wikidata QID: Q1641012 Synonyms: ricefield rat Hypernyms: rat, murid, muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism Coordinate_terms: wharf rat, field mouse, field vole, meadow vole
    Sense id: en-field_rat-en-noun-en:Q1641012
  6. A rat of any of several species:
    Maxomys surifer (syn. Rattus surifer solaris).
    Wikidata QID: Q1764790 Synonyms: red spiny rat Hypernyms: rat, murid, muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism Coordinate_terms: wharf rat, field mouse, field vole, meadow vole
    Sense id: en-field_rat-en-noun-en:Q1764790
  7. A rat of any of several species:
    Rattus tiomanicus.
    Wikidata QID: Q139675 Synonyms: Malayan field rat Hypernyms: rat, murid, muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism Coordinate_terms: wharf rat, field mouse, field vole, meadow vole
    Sense id: en-field_rat-en-noun-en:Q139675

Inflected forms

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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.