Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

neotropical spiny rat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English

Syllables: neotrop-i-cal spiny rat
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any rodent of the family Echimyidae, native to most of Latin America, the West Indies, and the Caribbean.

Inflected Forms

Neotropical spiny rats (plural)

Synonyms

echimyid

Questions

What does neotropical spiny rat mean?: Any rodent of the family Echimyidae, native to most of Latin America, the West Indies, and the Caribbean.

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