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water vole
noun
- a large amphibious vole, Arvicola terrestris, of Eurasian river banks: family Cricetidae Also calledwater rat
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The water-vole is really a relative of that interesting creature you have often read of—I mean the beaver.
This is a water-vole, often called water-rat, although it belongs to quite a different family from that of the true rats.
It was clear that if the cult of the water-violet involved the killing of the water-vole it had got to be abandoned.
They are nearly as bitter against animals, the poor water-vole (or water-rat) even is denounced and shot.
One day, while walking along the bank of the Cherwell River, I saw a water-vole on the opposite bank.
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