coypu
Noun
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Noun
coypu (plural coypus)
- A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America and introduced to Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere.
- nutria (especially North America)
- French: ragondin
- German: Biberratte, Nutria, Sumpfbiber, Schweifbiber, Schweifratte, Coypu
- Italian: nutria
- Portuguese: ratão-do-banhado, ratão-d'água, nútria, caxingui
- Russian: ну́трия
- Spanish: coipo
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