Meaning

2 senses
  1. (especially, in compounds)Any rat species of the murid genus Niviventer of Southeast Asia.

    Weißbauchratte

    белобрю́хая кры́саbelobrjúxaja krýsa

  2. Niviventer niviventer, a species of murid found in Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.

    Große Himalaya-Weißbauchratte

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
any Niviventer species:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
any Niviventer species:
Niviventer niviventer:

Origin

Calque of translingual Niviventer (literally “snow(-white)-belly”) and translingual Nivive

Calque of translingual Niviventer (literally “snow(-white)-belly”) and translingual Niviventer niviventer (a reduplication of the previous term), respectively.

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Forms

plural: white-bellied rats

Synonyms

1 synonyms
niviventer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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