Muskrat Definition

mŭskrăt
muskrats
noun
muskrats
Any of various American rodents (family Cricetidae) living in water and having glossy brown fur, a long tail, webbed hind feet, and a musklike odor.
Webster's New World
Its fur.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Muskrat

Noun

Singular:
muskrat
Plural:
muskrats

Origin of Muskrat

  • Perhaps so called for its musky odour and because it resembles a rat, or perhaps called by an Algonquian name like the Abenaki moskwas, with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words musk and rat.

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Muskrat Sentence Examples

  • The muskrat will gnaw his third leg off to be free.

  • Other smaller mammals include muskrat Ondatra zibethicus, cottontail rabbit Sylvilagus floridanus, and a number of mice, mole and shrew species.

  • Fiber - the muskrats - is a North American aquatic type (see Muskrat), characterized by the compression of the tail.

  • By February 1934, a team of 15 professional trappers had managed to reduce the number of Muskrat.

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