bamboo rat

English

Noun

bamboo rat (plural bamboo rats)

Any of the four species of burrowing rodents in the spalacid tribe Rhizomyini, found in China and southeast Asia

Derived terms

Translations

rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys

Burmese: ပွေး (my) (pwe:)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 竹鼠 (zuk¹ syu²)

Mandarin: 竹鼠 (zh) (zhúshǔ)
Finnish: bambumyllikäs
French: rat des bambous (fr) m
Indonesian: dekan (id)
Italian: ratto del bambù m
Lao: ອົ້ນ (ʼon)
Malay: dekan
Mon: တန်
Shan: ဢူၼ်ႈ (shn) (ʼūun)
Thai: อ้น (th) (ôn)
Vietnamese: dúi

References

bamboo rat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Rhizomyini on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Rhizomyinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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