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n. A large aquatic rodent (Ondatra zibethica) of North America, related to the lemming and the vole and having a dense brown coat and musk glands under a broad flat tail. Also called musquash, water rat.

n. The fur of this rodent.

n. A large aquatic rodent; Ondatra zibethicus.

n. A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Ondatra zibethica formerly Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the hind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, ondatra, and sometimes water rat.

n. The musk shrew.

n. The desman.

n. A large murine rodent quadruped, Fiber zibethicus, of the family Muridœ and subfamily Arvicolinœ: so called from its musky odor.

n. An insectivorous animal of musky odor likened to a rat, such as the European desman, Mygale pyrenaica, and the Indian musk-shrew or rat-tailed shrew, Sorex indicus or Crocidura myosura, also called Indian muskrat and monjourou.

n. A viverrine quadruped, the South African genet, Genetta felina.

n. the brown fur of a muskrat

n. beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur

"This miller had shot an animal they call a muskrat, the skin of which we saw hanging up to dry."

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