Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lewis rat

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables: lewis rat
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of albino rat used in medical research, exhibiting docile behavior and low fertility, and suffering from high incidences of neoplasms and other pathology.

Etymology

Bred by Margaret Lewis from Wistar stock in the early 1950s.

Inflected Forms

Lewis rats (plural)

Questions

What does lewis rat mean?: A kind of albino rat used in medical research, exhibiting docile behavior and low fertility, and suffering from high incidences of neoplasms and other pathology.
Where does lewis rat come from?: Bred by Margaret Lewis from Wistar stock in the early 1950s.

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