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Definition of Beaver rat
1. Noun. Amphibious rat of Australia and New Guinea.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaver Rat
Literary usage of Beaver rat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Adventures in the New World, Or, Days and Nights of Moose-hunting by Campbell Hardy (1855)
"... Scenery on the Restigouche— White Fish—A Poor Breakfast—Choke Cherries—Troublesome
Plies—The Little Forks—The Canoe tracked —The beaver rat—A "Jam" in ..."
2. Natural History of the World: With Anecdotes Illustrating the Nature, Habits edited by Alfred Henry Miles (1895)
"The better known varieties of rats are the Brown Rat, the Black Rat, the Water
Rat, the beaver rat, the Musk Rat, the Lemming, the Pouched Rat, &c., &c. ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... or Cod-fishes, which is also called Beaver-rat,;/, an aquatic rodent, ...
and brackish water is the yellow bellied beaver-rat or musk-rat (Hydromys ..."
4. Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural by Sir William Lawrence (1848)
"It will be sufficient to mention that the lemurs and bats, e squirrel, beaver,
rat, porcu sloth, possess perfect clavicles. ..."
5. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"AUSTRALIAN BEAVER-RAT. "We have, for instance," remarks the latest ... of which
the best known is commonly termed the 'beaver-rat. ..."
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