spiny rat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of certain caviomorph rodents of the family Echimyidae of Neotropical spiny rats, especially of genus Proechimys, that resemble rats and have stiff, pointed hairs, or spines.
Example Sentences
- "Spiny rats, Proechimys semispinosus, are rodents weighing up to 500 g which eat fruits and seeds that have fallen to the forest floor. In Lutz catchment, a spiny rat's territory is three-fifths as wide as an agouti's (Smythe et al. 1982)."
- "Members of the important Neotropical family Echimyidae, which includes a viety of roughly rat-sized rodents, are called spiny rats.[…]Spiny rats are widely distributed in the Neotropics, occurring from Nicaragua southward through the northern half of South America to Paraguay and south-eastern Brazil."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Central Sulawesi spiny rat
large New Guinea spiny rat
large spiny rat
Mindanao spiny rat
small spiny rat
Sulawesi spiny rat
spiny long-footed rat
spiny mouse
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
hedgehog rat
porcupine rat