otter
noun /ˈɒtə(r)/
/ˈɑːtər/
- a small animal that has four webbed feet (= with skin between the toes), a tail and thick brown fur. Otters live in rivers and eat fish.Topics Animalsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryOtter is used after these nouns:
- sea
Word OriginOld English otr, ot(t)or, of Germanic origin; related to Greek hudros ‘water snake’.