nutria definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: aquatic South ... resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur [syn: coypu, nutria, Myocastor coypus] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: American Spanish, from ... 1820 1. the durable usually light brown fur of a nutria 2. a large South American semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) with ... of a coypu. Etymology: Sp., = otter Webster's 1913 Dictionary Nutria Nu"tri*a, n. [Sp. nutria an otter, fr. L. lutra, lytra.] The fur of the ...
... resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur [syn: coypu, nutria, Myocastor coypus] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: American Spanish coipú, from Mapuche coipu Date: 1793 nutria Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. coypus) an aquatic beaver-like ... allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria. [Written also coypou.] Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (coypus) A coypu ...