ondatra

Etymology
From Huron / ondatra or ondathra, attested in Gabriel Sagard's 1632 French Dictionnaire de la langue huronne and found in the Huron dialects of the Hochelaga region of Canada.

Noun

 * 1)  The muskrat.
 * 2) * 1852, The Swiss Family Robinson, a translation of Johann David Wyss' German Der Schweizerische Robinson, chapter 39:
 * The first was the musk-beaver, not much different from the ondatra, excepting in the formation of his snout.

Noun

 * 1) muskrat