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Meanings of musquash in English

Portuguese
rato almiscareiro
Catalan
almesquera
Spanish
ondatra zibethicus
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Beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur.

        rato almiscareiro
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        Examples for "muskrat"
        Examples for "muskrat"
        1
        He was probably watching for muskrat under the bluff of the creek.
        The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
        2
        Moreover, the muskrat would have the advantage of being on familiar ground.
        Followers of the Trail
        3
        A big rat I guess, perhaps a muskrat from the pond above.
        Pathfinder; or, The Missing Tenderfoot
        4
        I am the muskrat, and I, too, belong to a large family.
        Myths and Legends of the Sioux
        5
        In a fourth, bubbled choice pieces of beaver, muskrat, lynx, and skunk.
        The Drama of the Forests: Romance and Adventure
        Usage of musquash in English
        1
        I'm going to buy myself a musquash coat with a skunk collar.
        Penny Plain
        2
        Jerry and Will watched their comrade bravely take a portion of the musquash.
        The Outdoor Chums; Or, The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera...
        3
        Ferlorner than a musquash, ef you'd took an' dreened his swamp:
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 / A Magaz...
        4
        What the minks and musquash get won't keep us from making our try, will it?
        In Camp on the Big Sunflower
        5
        The muskrat (watsuss, or musquash) is very abundant in all the small grassy lakes.
        The Journey to the Polar Sea
        6
        I "hooked" the apples, leaped the brook, and scared the musquash and the trout.
        Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
        7
        Sure enough, Jim cut up the musquash, and gave evidences of satisfaction at finding them so plump.
        With Trapper Jim in the North Woods
        8
        The boys made sure of this, not fancying the idea of having to depend upon the musquash alone.
        With Trapper Jim in the North Woods
        9
        This was the musk-rat or musquash.
        The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
        10
        But just then another musquash carelessly trod on the big musquash's tail and the old musquash roared with pain.
        Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
        11
        Strouds, cotton, beads, and trading-guns are still the wants of the Indian, and are still traded for marten and musquash.
        The Great Lone Land / A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the...
        12
        It takes him a good while; but he will come all right by-and-by, Sir,-assound as a woodchuck,-assound as a musquash!
        The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
        13
        Now, if so be ye feels that way, let's git back to camp an' hatch up some sorter dinner Ever eat musquash, boys?
        The Outdoor Chums; Or, The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera...
        14
        As in the case of the musquash (or muskrat), a strange instinct guides the beaver as to the height of his dwelling.
        Ways of Wood Folk
        15
        Bringing in some musquash, and he swept his hand around at a dozen wooden frames upon which the skins were drying in the shade.
        The Outdoor Chums; Or, The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera...
        16
        The other voyageur, perhaps, would in the mean while have seen a brown hawk, or a woodchuck, or a musquash creeping under the alders.
        A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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        Catalan
        almesquera
        Musquash through the time