Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small rat, Golunda eliiotti, found in southern India and Ceylon, where it does much damage to coffee plantations, by eating buds and blossoms. It is about 10 inches in total length and olive-brown above, tawny below.
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The coffee-rat [1] is an insular variety of the _Mus hirsutus_ of W. Elliot, found in Southern India.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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The coffee-rat [1] is an insular variety of the _Mus hirsutus_ of W. Elliot, found in Southern India.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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