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coypus

coypus is the plural of coypu.

Meaning of coypu

Noun

coypu (plural coypus or coypu)

  1. 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.
    • We are walking south-west, down a gently increasing slope, with the old farm buildings of the tiny hamlet of Villemiers [in the department of Charente] visible on the other side of the valley a kilometre away. The Transon [a tributary of the river Charente] meanders in the bottom of the valley...2015, Dave Goulson, A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm, Picador, →ISBN, page 14
    Synonyms:
    nutria

Questions about coypus

What is coypus the plural of?
Coypus is the plural of coypu.

Words near coypus in the dictionary

  1. coyotos
  2. COYP
  3. coypou
  4. coypous
  5. coypu
  6. coypus
  7. COYR
  8. COYRs
  9. coys
  10. Coysh
  11. Coyshes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coypus (page history and authors); coypu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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