musquash
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Abenaki moskwas (or its Massachusett equivalent). Compare musquaw.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒʃ
Noun[edit]
musquash (plural musquashes)
- The muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus. [from 17th c.]
- Synonym: (obsolete, rare) squash
- 1634, William Wood, “Beasts Living in the Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 25:
- […] Muſquaſhes, vvhich be much like a Beaver for ſhape, but nothing neare ſo bigge; the male hath tvvo ſtones vvhich ſmell as ſvveete as Muske, […]
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Translations[edit]
Ondatra zibethicus — see muskrat