DCHP-3

marsh rat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an aquatic rodent, Ondatra zibethica, common to many parts of North America and widely trapped for its valuable fur.

See: mushrat(def. 1),muskrat(def. 1)

Quotations

1902
The owl is flapping blindly through the flags to another hiding-place, while the wriggle-wriggle of the waters tells where the marsh-rat has darted away under the tangled growth.