Definition of Coipu
||Coy"pu (koi"p??), n. [Native
name.] (Zoöl.) A South American rodent
(Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a
valuable fur called nutria. [Written also
coypou.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America, Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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