Crossword clues for musquash
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muskrat \Musk"rat`\, n.
(Zo["o]l.) A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent ( Ondatra zibethica formerly Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the hind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, ondatra, and sometimes water rat.
(Zo["o]l.) The musk shrew.
(Zo["o]l.) The desman.
Wiktionary
n. A muskrat, ''Ondatra zibethicus''.
WordNet
n. beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur [syn: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica]
Wikipedia
Musquash may refer to:
Usage examples of "musquash".
My kind publishers announced, some time ago, a table of contents, which included chapters on jay and fish-hawk, panther, and musquash, and a certain savage old bull moose that once took up his abode too near my camp for comfort.
If squirrels and rats and rabbits were too nimble at first, there are plenty of musquash to be caught, and he need not stop at a fawn or a sheep, for he is enormously strong, and the grip of his jaws is not to be loosened.
Then the beavers guard their preserve jealously, driving away the wood folk that dare to cross their dam or enter their ponds, especially the musquash, who is apt to burrow and cause them no end of trouble.
I could see grassy domes rising above the bronze and gold of the marsh, where Musquash was building thick and high for winter cold and spring floods.
Then came the pulsating monotone of the frogs from a far-off pool, the harsh cry of an owl from an old tree that overhung it, the splash of a mink or musquash, and nearer by, the light step of a woodchuck, as he cantered off in his quiet way to his hole in the nearest bank.
I include January, because musquash and beaver are sold in that month.
I more than suspect that the clerk of the weather himself does not always know very long in advance whether he is to draw an order for hot or cold, dry or moist, and the musquash is scarce likely to be wiser.
Miss Brodie sat shrivelled and betrayed in her long-preserved dark musquash coat.
Red leather coat, brown musquash, green and brown tweed coat and skirt.
No one had admitted to recognizing either the photograph or the sketch of Finn Englewood, but as Ben leaned on the grubby white pine bar waiting for his drink, he spotted Musquash Crowley and Roscoe Knapp sitting with two other men who had visited the surgery earlier in the day.
The rawness of the day made it allowable for her to put on her musquash coat even to go as far as the gate and give Randall his orders.
Then the beavers guard their preserve jealously, driving away the wood folk that dare to cross their dam or enter their ponds, especially the musquash, who is apt to burrow and cause them no end of trouble.