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A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent . It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance

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A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent . It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• RODENTIA
  An order of mammals having two large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order. Note: The incisor teeth are long, curved, and strongly enameled on the outside,
• SCENTFUL
  1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.
• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• NORTHERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
• NORTHMAN
  One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• NORTHMOST
  Lying farthest north; northernmost. Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe.
• AQUATIC
  Pertaining to water growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.
• NORTHEAST
  Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind. Northeast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north
• SCALY
  Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. Scaly ant-eater , the pangolin. (more info) 1. Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. "Scaly crocodile." Milton. 2. Resembling scales,
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• INTUMESCENT
  Swelling up; expanding.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• REVALESCENT
  Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• CORRODENT
  Corrosive. Bp. King.
• ADOLESCENT
  Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See
• CONCUPISCENTIOUS
  Concupiscent.
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• CONVALESCENTLY
  In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
• DELITESCENT
  Lying hid; concealed.
• DEPASCENT
  Feeding.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.