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Definition of Jerboa rat
1. Noun. Large Australian rat with hind legs adapted for leaping.
Group relationships: Conilurus, Genus Conilurus
Specialized synonyms: Kangaroo Mouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jerboa Rat
Literary usage of Jerboa rat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Long White Mountan: Or, A Journey in Manchuria, with Some Account of the by Henry Evan Murchison James (1888)
"... Accident to Younghusband— Antelopes—jerboa rat—Bustards—A Mongol palace—Road to
... jerboa rat ..."
2. Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official by Arthur Crawford (1894)
"E INDICA, OR jerboa rat. and a very good one, too, / thought, in common with
other officials—of giving them savoury stews of the little Jerboa. ..."
3. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"jerboa rat. G. Hardwickii, Oral/. \ G. Cuvieri, Waterhouse. ... The India jerboa
rat of all India and Ceylon is of the family Muridae. ..."
4. The Long White Mountain by Henry Evan Murchison James (1888)
"... Accident to Younghusband— Antelopes—jerboa rat—Bustards—A Mongol palace—Road to
... jerboa rat ..."
5. The Mammals of India: A Natural History of All the Animals Known to Inhabit by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1874)
"The Jerboa-rat is very abundant in most parts of India, frequenting the bare
uncultivated plains and sandy downs, where it forms extensive burrows; ..."
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