What does roof rat mean?

roof rat means "common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide".

What is another word for roof rat?

Close synonyms include black rat, Rattus rattus. 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 roof rat a common word?

roof rat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Roof rat — meaning and 2 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide
Synonymsblack rat Rattus rattus
Broaderrat
Part ofRattus

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What does roof rat mean?: roof rat means "common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide".
What is another word for roof rat?: Close synonyms include black rat, Rattus rattus. 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.

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