musquash
Appearance
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, […]
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Ondatra zibethicus — see muskrat