nutria
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
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- 8
- Letters
- 6
Definition of nutria
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)The coypu, Myocastor coypus.
“1986, Identifying and Managing Aquatic Rodents in Texas, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, page 13, Nutria are native to South America and were successfully established in North America in the early 1930s as a new furbearing species.”
“Furthermore, nutria engage in the outright destruction of muskrat lodges to create nesting habitat for themselves.”
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noun
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(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)The coypu, Myocastor coypus.
“1986, Identifying and Managing Aquatic Rodents in Texas, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, page 13, Nutria are native to South America and were successfully established in North America in the early 1930s as a new furbearing species.”
“Furthermore, nutria engage in the outright destruction of muskrat lodges to create nesting habitat for themselves.”
- (countable, uncountable)The fur of the coypu.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Spanish nutria (“otter”), from Latin lutra.
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