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OTTER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("otter" is a kind of...):

mustelid; musteline; musteline mammal (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "otter"):

Lutra canadensis; river otter (sociable aquatic animal widely distributed along streams and lake borders in North America)

Eurasian otter; Lutra lutra (otter found in Europe and Asia)

Holonyms ("otter" is a member of...):

genus Lutra; Lutra (in some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fur of an otter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("otter" is a kind of...):

fur; pelt (the dressed hairy coat of a mammal)

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