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Related topics: Animalsmusk·rat /ˈmʌskræt/ noun [countable] HBAan animal which lives in water in North America 〔北美洲生活在水中的〕麝鼠Examples from the Corpusmuskrat• He has that blank muskrat face.• Minks also eat muskrat carrion, and abandoned lodges provide valuable denning sites.• Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers.• The muskrat is a swamp-dwelling rodent something like a large water vole.• Many of us kids knew how to trap muskrats and when the berries were just ripe enough-things like that.Origin muskrat (1600-1700) Algonquian muscasus; influenced by musk and ratmusk·rat nounChineseSyllable which an in water North animal Corpus America in lives |