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UK
/mˈʌskɹæt/
]
[ US /ˈməsˌkɹæt/ ]
[ US /ˈməsˌkɹæt/ ]
NOUN
- the brown fur of a muskrat
- beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur
How To Use muskrat In A Sentence
- The muskrat was a very good swimmer, indeed, and as soon as she reached the water she plunged in and swam about, to show Sammie and Susie how it ought to be done. Sammie and Susie Littletail
- In the Baltimore markets four kinds of terrapin are sold -- not counting muskrat, which is sometimes disguised with sauce and sherry and served as a substitute. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
- This opossum, which is black and white, swims in the streams like a muskrat or otter, catching fish and living in burrows which open under water. IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay
- Many species of warblers sensitive to forest fragmentation live there, too, along with beavers, muskrats, deer, foxes, raccoons, opossums, groundhogs, and other four-legged animals.
- The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
- Among them are Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir John A. MacDonald festooned in mink, beaver, muskrat, seal and rabbit.
- Mill Creek foraging parties may have opportunistically harvested a number of resources from these wetlands including nesting waterfowl, muskrats, and arrowhead tubers.
- The region teemed with muskrat, beaver, wolverine, otter, wolf, fox and bear.
- The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
- Her coffin was lovingly wrapped in muskrat, beaver and fox furs and lowered into the ground by her family.