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noun
Rattus macleari, a species of brown rat once endemic to Christmas Island, now extinct.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
Named after Captain John Maclear (1838–1907) of the British survey-ship HMS Flying-fish, who collected the specimen from Christmas Island in 1886.
