coypu

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver

   The coypu is a semi-aquatic rodent introduced outside South America.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

   The coypu is a semi-aquatic rodent introduced outside South America.

From Spanish coipú, from Mapudungun koypu.

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