bandicoot rat

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   burrowing scaly-tailed rat of India and Ceylon

   Synonymsmole rat

   Broaderrat

   Part ofNesokia

Questions about bandicoot rat

What does bandicoot rat mean?

bandicoot rat means "burrowing scaly-tailed rat of India and Ceylon".

What is another word for bandicoot rat?

Close synonyms include mole rat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bandicoot rat a common word?

bandicoot rat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.