rat poison

English

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Noun

rat poison (countable and uncountable, plural rat poisons)

1. Poison used to kill rats and other rodents.

   Synonym: raticide

   Hypernyms: rodenticide < poison

2. A West African shrub (Dichapetalum toxicarium, syn. Chailletia toxicaria), whose seeds are used to destroy rats.

Related terms

• rat terrier
• ratting
• rattrap, rat trap

Translations

poison for killing rats, etc.

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: մկնասպան (hy) (mknaspan)
• Belarusian: пацучыная атрута f (pacučynaja atruta), пацучыны яд m (pacučyny jad)
• Bulgarian: мишеморка f (mišemorka)
• Catalan: raticida m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 老鼠藥 / 老鼠药 (lou⁵ syu² joek⁶)

  Mandarin: 老鼠藥 / 老鼠药 (lǎoshǔyào), 耗子藥 / 耗子药 (hàoziyào)

• Danish: rottegift (da) c
• Dutch: rattengif (nl) n
• Finnish: rotanmyrkky (fi)
• French: raticide (fr) m, mort-aux-rats (fr) f
• German: Rattengift (de) n
• Greek: τρωκτικοκτόνο (el) f (troktikoktóno)
• Hebrew: רַעַל עַכְבָּרִים m (rá'al 'achbarím)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: patkányméreg (hu)
• Hunsrik: Rattegift n
• Italian: topicida (it) m, ratticida m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 쥐약 (ko) (jwiyak)
• Malay: racun tikus
• Malayalam: എലിവിഷം (eliviṣaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rottegift m or f

  Nynorsk: rottegift f

• Polish: rodentycyd (pl) m
• Portuguese: veneno para ratos m, raticida (pt) m
• Romanian: raticid (ro) n
• Russian: родентици́д (ru) m (rodenticíd), крысиный яд m (krysinyj jad)
• Spanish: raticida (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: råttgift n
• Tagalog: pamatay-daga
• Thai: ยาเบื่อหนู (yaa-bʉ̀ʉa-nǔu)
• Turkish: sıçan zehiri
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: thuốc diệt chuột
• Welsh: gwenwyn llygod m

References

• rat poison on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “rat poison”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “rat-poison”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “rat poison”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Dichapetalum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dichapetalins on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chailletia toxicaria at Plants of the World Online

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