Norway rat

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).

词形变化

Norway rats plural

词源

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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