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Etymology
From Abenaki moskwas (or its Massachusett equivalent). Compare musquaw.
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musquash (plural musquashes)
- The muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus.
- Synonym: (obsolete, rare) squash
1634, William Wood, “Beasts Living in the Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; , London: Tho Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, , →OCLC, 1st part, page 25:[…] Muſquaſhes, vvhich be much like a Beaver for ſhape, but nothing neare ſo bigge; the male hath tvvo ſtones vvhich ſmell as ſvveete as Muske, […]
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