单词 | muskrat |
释义 | muskrat From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Animalsmuskratmusk‧rat /ˈmʌskræt/ noun [countable]HBAan animal which lives in water in North AmericaExamples from the Corpusmuskrat• He has that blank muskrat face.• Minks also eat muskrat carrion, and abandoned lodges provide valuable denning sites.• Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers.• The muskrat is a swamp-dwelling rodent something like a large water vole.• Many of us kids knew how to trap muskrats and when the berries were just ripe enough-things like that.Origin muskrat (1600-1700) Algonquian muscasus; influenced by musk and rat |
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