English
Etymology
From Spanish coipú, from Mapudungun koypu.
Pronunciation
Noun
coypu (plural coypus or coypu)
- A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America and introduced to Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere.
Synonyms
- nutria (especially North America)
Translations
Myocastor coypus
- Belarusian: ну́трыя f (nútryja)
- Bulgarian: нутрия (bg) f (nutrija)
- Chamicuro: chiklo'ti
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 海狸鼠 (hǎilíshǔ)
- Czech: nutrie (cs) f
- Danish: sumpbæver c
- Dutch: beverrat (nl)
- Esperanto: kojpo
- Finnish: nutria (fi)
- French: ragondin (fr) m
- German: Biberratte f, Nutria (de) f, Sumpfbiber m, Schweifbiber m, Schweifratte f, Coypu
- Italian: nutria (it) f
- Japanese: ヌートリア (ja) (nūtoria)
- Korean: 뉴트리아 (ko) (nyuteuria)
- Lithuanian: nutrija (lt) f
- Macedonian: нутрија f (nutrija)
- Mapudungun: koypu
- Polish: nutria (pl) f
- Portuguese: ratão-do-banhado m, ratão-d'água m, nútria (pt) f, caxingui m
- Romanian: nutrie (ro) f
- Russian: ну́трия (ru) f (nútrija)
- Slovak: nutria (sk) f
- Spanish: coipo (es) m, coipu m (Chile)
- Thai: นากหญ้า (nâak-yâa)
- Turkish: koypu, su maymunu
- Ukrainian: ну́трія f (nútrija)
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