Similar toacommon rodent

Usage examples of ratlike.

Killick removed the deadlights from the stern window, admitting a grey morning and peering in himself with an inquisitive expression on his ratlike face.

Purga and Last were here, and other mammals, little ratlike creatures that had kept themselves alive in their underground burrows, warmed through this long winter by their constant body heat.

They had ratlike incisors, and a humble verminous look compared to Noth and his family, their black-and-white fur patchy and filthy.

Cornell gets assigned to a world they call High Desert, where humans emerge as small multibodied ratlike creatures.

There was a pair of deltatheridiums, ratlike omnivores, neither marsupial nor placental, a unique line that would not outlive the dinosaurs.

The customer in front of us was a ratlike little man with a tube of cheese food and three bottles of cough medicine.

He could, of course, be murdered by one of the ratlike autochthons of the planet, but that was not very likely.

It was the front part of a ratlike creature the size of a small Siamese cat, which, with a stoatlike lithe sinuosity flowed up onto the seat.

The clothes were far too big for the man, who was short and had a ratlike face thrust forward from slightly stooped shoulders and three rings that looked like wedding bands through the septum of his nose.