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Musquash   Listen
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Musquash  n.  (Zool.) See Muskrat.
Musquash root (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Cicuta maculata), having a poisonous root. See Water hemlock.






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"Musquash" Quotes from Famous Books



... a wild antelope, so much a part and parcel of Nature, that his very person should thus sweetly advertise our senses of his presence, and remind us of those parts of Nature which he most haunts. I feel no disposition to be satirical, when the trapper's coat emits the odor of musquash even; it is a sweeter scent to me than that which commonly exhales from the merchant's or the scholar's garments. When I go into their wardrobes and handle their vestments, I am reminded of no grassy plains and flowery meads which they have frequented, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various



Words linked to "Musquash" :   muskrat, gnawer, rodent, genus Ondatra, Ondatra, Ondatra zibethica



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