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maclear's rat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
maclear's rat
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Rattus macleari, a species of brown rat once endemic to Christmas Island, now extinct.

Obsolete

Etymology

Named after Captain John Maclear (1838–1907) of the British survey-ship HMS Flying-fish, who collected the specimen from Christmas Island in 1886.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Maclear's rats (plural)

Questions

What does maclear's rat mean?
Rattus macleari, a species of brown rat once endemic to Christmas Island, now extinct.
Where does maclear's rat come from?
Named after Captain John Maclear (1838–1907) of the British survey-ship HMS Flying-fish, who collected the specimen from Christmas Island in 1886.

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