Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The musquash or muskrat of North America, Fiber zibethicus.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] Same as
Fiber , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of rodents including the muskrat (
Ondatra zibethica ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
muskrat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun muskrats
Etymologies
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From an Iroquoian language, perhaps Wyandot.
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Examples
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Voyaging along the margin of a lake, we may see on the shores numbers of little flattened oval nests composed of reeds and sedges, while numerous holes in the bank, with quantities of shells, chiefly of the fresh-water mussel, scattered round, show the entrance to the habitations of the musquash, or ondatra, called also the musk-rat.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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