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GENUS ONDATRA

• GENUS ONDATRA (noun)
The noun GENUS ONDATRA has 1 sense:

1. muskrats

Familiarity information: GENUS ONDATRA used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS ONDATRA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Muskrats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Ondatra; Ondatra

Hypernyms ("genus Ondatra" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ondatra"):

muskrat; musquash; Ondatra zibethica (beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur)

Holonyms ("genus Ondatra" is a member of...):

Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)

"Forewarned is forearmed."
(English proverb)
"When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard."
(Native American proverb, Lakota)
"Do not buy either the moon or the news, for in the end they will both come out."
(Arabic proverb)
"The morning rainbow reaches the fountains; the evening rainbow fills the sails."
(Corsican proverb)

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Definition of musquash
Definition of Ondatra zibethica
Definition of Cricetidae

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