ondatra

See also: Ondatra

English

Etymology

From an Iroquoian language, perhaps Wyandot.[1]

Noun

ondatra (plural ondatras)

  1. (chiefly US) The muskrat.
    • 1852, The Swiss Family Robinson, a translation of Johann David Wyss' German Der Schweizerische Robinson, chapter 39:
      The first was the musk-beaver, not much different from the ondatra, excepting in the formation of his snout.

References
  1. 1910, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, part 2

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈondatra]

Noun

ondatra f

  1. muskrat
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