mårhund
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From mår (“marten”) + hund (“dog”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mårhund m (definite singular mårhunden, indefinite plural mårhundar, definite plural mårhundane)
- a raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides
- 1990, Lars Amund Vaage (translated from Markus Kappeler) "Hunden":
- I 1928 begynte nemleg fagfolk planmessig å setja ut mårhund i europeisk Russland for å jakta på han.
- Because in 1928, experts started systematically releasing the raccoon dog into the wild in European Russia in order to hunt it.
- 1990, Lars Amund Vaage (translated from Markus Kappeler) "Hunden":
References
- Mårhund at Artsdatabanken