muskrat

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini.
    — 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187. He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
  2. Any of several shrews in the family Soricidae, especially an Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus).
  3. A bandicoot rat. obsolete

词形变化

muskrats plural musk-rat alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Louisiana muskrat muskrat root muskratty muskrat weed

词源

Perhaps so called for its musky odour and because it resembles a rat, or perhaps called by an Algonquian name like the Abenaki moskwas, with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words musk and rat.
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