"roof rat" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "roof rats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "roof rat (plural roof rats)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
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          "name": "Murids",
          "orig": "en:Murids",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 308:",
          "text": "A large roof rat ran from the overflowing bins and disappeared under the house.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The black rat."
      ],
      "id": "en-roof_rat-en-noun-Z2Q2LY7o",
      "links": [
        [
          "black rat",
          "black rat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "roof rat"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "roof rats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Murids"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 308:",
          "text": "A large roof rat ran from the overflowing bins and disappeared under the house.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The black rat."
      ],
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        [
          "black rat",
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        ]
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  ],
  "word": "roof rat"
}