Meanings (ES + gloss)
rata almizclada • rata almizclera • rata almizcleña
A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini.
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187. He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirre…
Later, dozing in the lamplight, he saw muskrats everywhere. Their small supple forms slipped busily along the floor at dusk, continually perfecting their burrows. He saw them pulli…