musquash

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Abenaki moskwas (or its Massachusett equivalent). Compare musquaw.

Some folks call him Musquash, but Muskrat is better. — The Burgess Animal Book for Children, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
I “hooked” the apples, leaped the brook, and scared the musquash and the trout. — Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
"We met no traces of Red, or of Micmac Indians, or of the wild cariboo deer; the black bear, the red fox, the broad-tailed musquash, the white hare, and other game of the country, were nowhere to be seen either, or else we were not trappers enough to know their lairs or trail. — One of the Six Hundred: A Novel, James Grant

muskrat, Ondatra zibethica

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