white-bellied rat

English

Etymology

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

By surface analysis, white +‎ bellied +‎ rat

Noun

white-bellied rat (plural white-bellied rats)

  1. (sensu lato, especially in compounds) Any rat species of the murid genus Niviventer of Southeast Asia.
    Synonym: niviventer
  2. (sensu stricto) Niviventer niviventer, a species of murid found in Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.

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