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Definition of Old world beaver
1. Noun. A European variety of beaver.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old World Beaver
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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