beaver-rat

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


an aquatic rodent, somethinglike the English water-rat, genus Hydromys.

1864. `Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land'[paper by Morton Allport], p. 62:

«Common to both fresh and brackish water is the yellow belliedbeaver-rat or musk-rat ( Hydromys chrysogaster).»

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