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