| 单词 | muskrat house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuskrat house muskrat house n. a mound-like structure made by a muskrat for shelter, consisting of reed mace and other vegetation held together with mud. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Ondatra (musk-rat) > burrow or resting-place musquash hole1835 muskrat house1837 musquash housea1862 push-up1933 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 277 They found the swamp full of ‘muskrat houses’. 1962 W. Stegner Wolf Willow iii. ii. 150 They had seen muskrat houses built six feet high in the sloughs—and when the rats built high you could depend on a hard winter. 1988 L. Eldrich Tracks (1989) v. 128 He saw a trail of those mink who tried to hide inside a muskrat house, and trapped them that same afternoon. < as lemmas |
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