Crossword clues for coypu
coypu
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Wiktionary
n. A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (''Myocastor coypus'') resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America and introduced to Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere.
WordNet
n. aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur [syn: nutria, Myocastor coypus]
Wikipedia
The coypu (, ; Myocastor coypus), also known as the river rat or nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent and the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Originally native to subtropical and temperate South America, it has since been introduced to North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, primarily by fur ranchers. Although it is still valued for its fur in some regions, its destructive feeding and burrowing behaviors make this invasive species a pest throughout most of its range.
Coypus live in burrows alongside stretches of water. They feed on river plant stems.
The coypu is a class of small sailing dinghy. It is a highly stable boat, suitable for beginners, and is normally sailed by two people, although three can be accommodated comfortably.
Usage examples of "coypu".
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.
It was a bracelet of coypu hair braided with black seed pearls, and when Yama began to thank Oncus in the formal fashion taught by his father, the leader of the fisherfolk put a finger to his lips.
One hand clasped the wrist of the other, crushing the coypu hair fetish.
It was a bracelet of coypu hair braided with black seed pearls, and when Yama began to thank Oncus in the formal fashion taught by his father, the leader of the X,,, fisherfolk put a finger to his lips.
A ceramic coin hung from his long supple neck by a doubled leather thong, and a circlet woven from coypu hair and studded with tiny black seed pearls was loose on his upper arm.
Pandaras touched the coypu hair fetish, which he wore on his upper arm, over his shirt.
He stepped forward briskly until he and Coypu were in eyeball-to-eyeball contact--or rather nose-to-nose contact since they both had impressive honkers.
Prof Coypu is going to manufacture an alien suit, complete with built-in slimedripper, and I am going to get inside of it.
I am off to the lab now to set things up with Professor Coypu and I hope that you will join me there.
I checked with Coypu and he says it is possible and he is muttering over the equations now.
A protesting Prof Coypu was ripped from his midnight bed and found himself in deep space before be had put his socks on.
The idea of Harold steering his mother from the baboons to the sea lions, from the coypu pond to the zebra house, pulling her gently out of the way of supercilious camels with sticky children on their backs was, to Nell, infinitely touching.
Badgers and wild coypu and small, frightened wallabies roamed the parching English countryside during the summer dry season.
Ships docked to load up our national products, goods transported from Stalingrad, Stalinsk, Stalino, Stalinbad, Stalinir, Stalinkan, and Stalinovo, goods to be sent forth to a waiting world: caviar and sables, vodka and papirosi, heroin and hashish, plutonium and red mercury, balalaikas, matryoshkas, lapel pins, rayon banners, platinum busts of our leaders, and coypu.
Jenny had lost her temper then, her eye-witness report having been dismissed almost out-of-hand, and the theory that it might indeed have been a group of coypus she had seen emerging from the pond seized upon and used against her.