Usually means: Rodent known for inhabiting attics.
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  1. roof rat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. roof rat: Vocabulary.com
  3. roof-rat: Wordnik
  4. roof rat: Wiktionary
  5. roof rat: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. roof rat: Dictionary.com
  7. Roof rat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. roof rat: Rhymezone
  9. roof rat: FreeDictionary.org
  10. roof rat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. roof rat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. roof rat: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. roof rat: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  The black rat.

Similar:
black rat, rattus rattus, Asian black rat, common rat, Hanover rat, Norwegian rat, field rat, grasscutter, sky rat, ricefield mouse, more...

Opposite:
ground rat, Norway rat, sewer rat

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Similar:
black rat, rattus rattus, Asian black rat, common rat, Hanover rat, Norwegian rat, field rat, grasscutter, sky rat, ricefield mouse, more...

Opposite:
ground rat, Norway rat, sewer rat



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