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Перевод: muskrat

[существительное]
ондатра [зоол.] ; выхухоль [зоол.] ; мех ондатры

Тезаурус:

1. In North America, the muskrat (the bearer of musquash fur) is perhaps the mink's most important mammal prey.
2. From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of Muskrat Ramble was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle, and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music.
3. Minks also eat muskrat carrion, and abandoned lodges provide valuable denning sites.
4. A half-mile away in the plantation director's house a scratchy rendition of Muskrat Ramble played by Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory was struggling to make itself heard over the roar of the monsoon rains.
5. Wild mustelids, principally mink and otter, constituted a large proportion of the trade, and together with two large rodents - beaver and muskrat - they fuelled the economy of the northern lands.
6. Along with otter, beaver and muskrat, it was relentlessly pursued by trappers, who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation.
7. Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers.
8. As an early observer remarked, "If a big muskrat goes after a mink with mayhem in mind and carving tools in front, the mink may not care to accept the sporting challenge."
9. The muskrat is a swamp-dwelling rodent something like a large water vole.