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• n  the brown fur of a muskrat
• n  beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur

• At the end of "Mountain Song" a muskrat (scarcely more than an oval with a line at the back) slips into a pond.
• He resembled none of his subjects, save for teeth slightly muskrat.
• Two chemists at Yale and Louisiana State claim to have extracted musk from the glands of the common muskrat (one-third of an ounce of distilled musk from 175 animals).

• muskrat fur
• musquash
• Ondatra zibethica

News & Articles

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• LATEST NEWS
  LACONIA, N.H. -- The Danbury Westerners opened the season in triumphant fashion, holding on to beat the Laconia Muskrats 7-6 in a New England Collegiate Baseball League game Sunday night.
  June 10, 2013 - Connecticut Post

Quotes

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• Frank LoBiondo in The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
  ...means spending time developing a weekend schedule packed with scores of events held by volunteer fire companies and other groups, including an annual muskrat festival in Salem's Lower Alloways Creek - "Muskrat definitely does not taste...
• Pamela Des Barres in Belfast Telegraph
  Backstage, later that same night, Des Barres remembers "making out passionately" with Morrison, spread out on top of her "crazy muskrat coat" and thinking, "this is the most beautiful man I have ever seen. He was so gorgeous,...