rat poison

English

Noun

rat poison (countable and uncountable, plural rat poisons)

Poison used to kill rats and other rodents.
A West African shrub (Dichapetalum toxicarium, syn. Chailletia toxicaria), whose seeds are used to destroy rats.

Synonyms

Translations

poison for killing rats etc.

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)
Finnish: rotanmyrkky (fi)
French: raticide (fr) m, mort-aux-rats (fr) f
German: Rattengift (de) n
Hungarian: patkányméreg (hu)

Italian: topicida (it) m, ratticida m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rottegift m or f

Nynorsk: rottegift f
Portuguese: veneno para ratos m, raticida (pt) m
Spanish: raticida (es) m

References

rat poison at OneLook Dictionary Search
“rat-poison” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.
“rat poison” (US) / “rat poison” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
Chailletia+toxicaria at The Plant List

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