Definition of Old World beaver

1. Noun. A European variety of beaver.

Exact synonyms: Castor Fiber
Generic synonyms: Beaver

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old World Beaver

Old Scratch
Old Serpent
Old Slavonic
Old South
Old Spanish
Old Style calendar
Old Swedish
Old Testament
Old Trafford
Old Tupi
Old Turkic
Old Ukrainian
Old Welsh
Old West
Old World
Old World beaver (current term)
Old World buffalo
Old World chat
Old World coot
Old World coral snake
Old World crayfish
Old World flycatcher
Old World hop hornbeam
Old World jay
Old World least weasel
Old World leishmaniasis
Old World mistletoe
Old World monkey
Old World monkeys
Old World oriole

Literary usage of Old World beaver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The Old World beaver, once widely common throughout Europe and Northern Asia, is now rare and isolated. Extinct in the British Isles since the Twelfth ..."

2. The American Beaver and His Works by Lewis Henry Morgan (1868)
"It will be remembered that Brandt does not insist upon the most obvious feature which distinguishes the Old World beaver from that of the New World, viz., ..."

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