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norwegian rat

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables
nor-we-gian rat
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The brown rat.

Etymology

The common name was popularised (and perhaps coined) by English naturalist John Berkenhout, in his Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain (1769). Berkenhout believed the species migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728; he is also responsible for the scientific name.

Inflected Forms

Norwegian rats (plural)

Synonyms

Norway rat sewer rat

Questions

What does norwegian rat mean?
The brown rat.
Where does norwegian rat come from?
The common name was popularised (and perhaps coined) by English naturalist John Berkenhout, in his Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain (1769). Berkenhout believed the species migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728; he is also responsible for the scientific name.

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