surmulot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French surmulot.

Noun

surmulot (plural surmulots)

1. (archaic) The brown rat.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “surmulot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.my.lo/

Noun

surmulot m (plural surmulots)

1. brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)

   Synonyms: rat brun, rat d’égout, rat gris, rat surmulot

Further reading

• “surmulot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.