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Meanings of Myocastor coypus in English

Portuguese
ratão do banhado
Catalan
llúdriga
Spanish
myocastor coypus

Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur.

        ratão do banhado
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        Examples for "nutria"
        Examples for "nutria"
        1
        Doonie had given me a nutria rat skull one Valentine's Day.
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        2
        Returning to his desk, he picked up the dead nutria.
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        3
        Even to his unpracticed touch, he could tell the nutria's neck had been broken.
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        4
        The name is a combination of nutria (Sp., otter) and oso (Sp., bear).
        Mormon Settlement in Arizona / A Record of Peaceful Conquest of ...
        5
        But an image of the dead nutria lying on his boss's desk stayed with him.
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        1
        In Italy, a bigger coypu infestation causes damage of up to 12 million euros a year.
        Reuters
        2
        Britain eradicated the coypu, a large rodent from South America whose burrows can undermine riverbanks, in a 5-million- euro campaign.
        Reuters
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