FromSpanishnutria(“otter”), fromLatinlutra.

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nutria (countable anduncountable,pluralnutrias)

1. (chieflyCanada,US) Thecoypu,Myocastor coypus.
   • 1986,Identifying and Managing Aquatic Rodents in Texas,Texas Agricultural Extension Service,page 13,

     Nutria are native to South America and were successfully established in North America in the early 1930s as a new furbearing species.

   • 2000,National Wetlands Newsletter, Volumes 22-23, Environmental Law Institute,page 8:

     Furthermore,nutria engage in the outright destruction of muskrat lodges to create nesting habitat for themselves.

2. Thefur of the coypu.

• nutria rat

• → Danish:nutria
• → Japanese:ヌートリア(nūtoria)
• → Korean:뉴트리아(nyuteuria)

• taurin

FromEnglishnutria.

nutria

1. coypu,nutria
   • 1964, Aage Aagesen,Sydamerika:

     På pampaen findes bl. a. bæltedyr, opossum, nandu, stinkdyr og hjorte. Ved vandløbene ernutriaen hyppig.

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2. thefur thereof
   • 1957, Aage Dons,De åbne arme, Lindhardt og Ringhof,→ISBN:

     UnderNutriaen bar hun en smaablomstret Silke imprimé Kjole,^[sic] ...

     Under thenutria, she wore a ? with small flowers on it, ...

FromSpanishnutria.

• IPA^(key):/ˈnutriɑ/,[ˈnut̪riɑ̝]
• Rhymes:-utriɑ
• Hyphenation^(key):nut‧ria

nutria

1. coypu

• “nutria”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03

• anturi,riutan,rutina,tunari,turina,uritan

• IPA^(key):/ˈnu.tri.a/
• Rhymes:-utria
• Hyphenation:nù‧tri‧a

nutria f (pluralnutrie)

1. coypu,nutria

   Synonym:castorino

• anturi

Borrowed fromSpanishnutria.Doublet ofhydra andwydra.

• IPA^(key):/ˈnu.trja/

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• Rhymes:-utrja
• Syllabification:nu‧tria

nutria f (related adjectivenutriowy)

1. nutria(any mammal of the genusMyocastor)
2. coypu,nutria(Myocastor coypus)

   Synonym:nutria amerykańska

3. coypufur

• nutria inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nutria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• nutria in PWN's encyclopedia

nutria

1. first/third-personsingularimperfectindicative ofnutrir

• lutria(archaic)

FromVulgar Latin*nutria or*lutria /*lutrea, fromLatinlutra. The Spanish word, preserving the-t-, may have arrived through the intermediate of eitherMozarabic or more likely a Southern Italian language or dialect: cf. Salerno dialect (ofNeapolitan)nùtria, Calabrianùtria andlùtria,utre in Basilicata, etc. TheVulgar Latin form was likely influenced byAncient Greekἔνυδρις(énudris).^[1] Compare alsoCatalanllúdria,Portugueselontra.

• IPA^(key):/ˈnutɾja/[ˈnu.t̪ɾja]

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• Rhymes:-utɾja
• Syllabification:nu‧tria

nutria f (pluralnutrias)

1. otter
2. (Rioplatense)nutria,coypu

   Synonym:coipo

• → Belarusian:нутрыя(nutryja)
• → Czech:nutrie
• → English:nutria
  • → Danish:nutria
  • → Japanese:ヌートリア(nūtoria)
  • → Korean:뉴트리아(nyuteuria)
• → Finnish:nutria
• → German:Nutria
• → Italian:nutria
• → Lithuanian:nutrija
• → Macedonian:нутрија(nutrija)
• → Polish:nutria
• → Portuguese:nútria
• → Russian:нутрия(nutrija)
• → Slovak:nutria
• → Ukrainian:нутрія(nutrija)

• “nutria”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10