Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur.
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Examples for "coypu"
Examples for "coypu"
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.
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.
6Stubbs looked out the window to see a clump of tourists clustered around the nutria cages.
7Michael came to the nutria cages, flicking on his flashlight to check the water and food containers.
8As Michael tossed two more chickens to the waiting reptiles, she turned away, toward the nutria cages.
9Populations from the four groups differed, though we found a number of migrants particularly non-treated cattle and nutria.
10Ignoring the woman, Stubbs unlocked the cage, opened the door, and lifted the lifeless nutria out of the pen.
11But lionfish fail as a proxy for controlling grey squirrels, nutria, Asian crabs, and other high-profile species that invade ecosystems.
12Well, that's not something you'll ever have to worry about, Stubbs said silently to himself as he took the nutria away.
13A nutria appeared and some friendly dogs, and we heard of tame foxes and diminutive ponies to be seen next day.
14He led Michael back into the office, then stepped aside so that the boy could see the dead nutria on the desk.
15He would certainly have noted the delicate contrast of the fur of the wild nutria with the soft V of her bare throat.
16It was during this part of our day's journey that the peons made two captures of live animals in an armadillo and a nutria.