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The greater bandicoot rat or Indian bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
The expected pronunciation in English would sound like "goatee" / ˈ ɡ oʊ t i /, not "fish". [ 1 ] Both of the digraphs in the spelling — gh and ti — are examples of consonant shifts, the gradual transformation of a consonant in a particular spoken context while retaining its identity in writing.
The related pacas were formerly included in genus Agouti, but these animals were reclassified in 1998 as genus Cuniculus. [3] The Spanish term is agutí. In Mexico, the agouti is called the sereque. [4] In Panama, it is known as the ñeque [5] and in eastern Ecuador, as the guatusa. [6] Red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina)
The majority of lesser bandicoot rats are highly susceptible to warfarin, where according to one experiment, one female animal has survived a high dose of active ingredient (79.1 mg kg-1). [5] Triptolide has been reported to cause sterility in male rats and mice. Triptolide treatment affected the histomorphology of the uterus of these rats by ...
In the dominant dialects of modern English, gh is almost always either silent or pronounced /f/ (see Ough). It is thought that before disappearing, the sound became partially or completely voiced to [ɣx] or [ɣ], which would explain the new spelling — Old English used a simple h — and the diphthongization of any preceding vowel.
The English zoologist Hugh Cott, describing Nyctibius griseus as "this wonderful bird", writes that it "habitually selects the top of an upright stump as a receptacle for its egg, which usually occupies a small hollow just, and only just, large enough to contain it ... the stump selected had thrown up a new leader just below the point of ...
a-, an-: Pronunciation: /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/.Origin: Ancient Greek: ἀ-, ἀν-(a, an-). Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the ...