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Water-dwelling rodent
Answer for the clue "Water-dwelling rodent ", 6 letters:
nutria
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Word definitions for nutria in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coypu \Coy"pu\ (koi"p??), n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) A South American rodent ( Myopotamus coypus ), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria . [Written also coypou .]
Usage examples of nutria.
The window curtains were blowing in the wind, and the clouds above the swamp were as black as soot, heat lightning ballooning inside them, and I could smell a trash fire in a coulee and hear the hysterical shrieking sound of a nutria calling to its mate.
The woman at the door was young and very attractive in a reactionary way, being dressed in a bourgeois grey costume with a sort of nutria or coypu or something coat swinging open over it.
There was plenty of deer, and nutria rats, and crow and choupique and alligator gar, just like these eel things.
Five decades of running traplines for nutria and muskrat had left him rangy and quick, impervious to injury.
At that time of day you hear and see many strange things in the marsh: a bull gator calling for his mate, a frog dropping off a cypress knee into the water, the cry of a nutria that sounds like the scream of a hysterical woman.