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Definition of Muskrat

1. Noun. The brown fur of a muskrat.

2. Noun. Beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur.

Definition of Muskrat

1. n. A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (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, and ondatra.

Definition of Muskrat

1. Noun. A large aquatic rodent; ''Ondatra zibethicus''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Muskrat

1. an aquatic rodent [n -S]

Medical Definition of Muskrat

1. 1. A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Fibre zibethicus). It resembles a rat in colour and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odour of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra. 2. The musk shrew. 3. The desman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muskrat

muskiness muskinesses musking muskit muskits muskle muskles muskmelon muskmelons muskogees

muskone muskones muskox muskoxen muskoxite muskrat (current term) muskrats muskroot muskroots musks

muskshrew muskshrews muskwood musky muslin muslined muslinet muslinets muslinlike

Literary usage of Muskrat

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

1. Report (1904)
"On the morning of November 17, 1901, a full-sized male muskrat was found in a steel ... Only the three lower compartments were given over to the muskrat, ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"FEROCIOUS TENDENCIES OF THE muskrat.—It is possible that others have commented on the unnatural and ludicrous attacks of the muskrat (Fiber ..."

3. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
"... THE muskrat." was too well bred to bite or scratch, but as soon as Teddy was asleep he went off for his nightly walk round the house, and in the dark he ..."

4. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE muskrat Teacher's Story "Having finished this first course of big-neck clams, they were joined by a third muskrat, and, together, they filed over the ..."

5. The Trapper's Guide and Manual of Instructions for Capturing All Kinds of by Sewell Newhouse, John Humphrey Noyes (1887)
"The modes of capturing the muskrat are various. ... It is not amphibious like the muskrat, yet lives on the banks of streams and gets much of its food from ..."

6. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
""You mean Jerry muskrat." "Go to the head of the class, Peter," said Old Mother ... He is called muskrat because he carries with him a scent called musk. ..."

7. Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin (1916)
"THE ARTICHOKE AND THE muskrat On the shore of a lake stood an artichoke with ... In the lake below lived a muskrat in his tepee, and in the evening as the ..."

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