Definition of "muskrats" [muskrats]

• Plural form of muskrat. (noun)

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• "Flooding during spring breakup also provides sediments and nutrients to deltas [40], which in turn help sustain unique and highly productive habitats for plant and animal species, including fish, waterfowl, and small mammals such as muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) [41]."
• "The process, unknown in polite circles here, though practised by the factory town "muskrats," was taught my babies by the Vanderveer boy during the Christmas holidays, which, being snowy and bright, drew the colony to the Bluffs for coasting, skating, etc., giving father such a river of senseless accidents to wade through that he threatens to absent himself and take refuge with Martin Cortright in his Irving Place den for holiday week next year."
• "But investigations have found only evidence of other animals such as muskrats or raccoons."