beavers

Flat-tailed rodents

Beavers is the plural of beaver—rodents, fur hats, or vulgar slang for female genitals: Beavers build dams with remarkable engineering.

The movie was full of beaver shots.

anatomy

tail

Rear animal appendage

  • furAnimal body hair
  • incisorsFront cutting teeth
  • teethEnamel-covered chewing structures

whiskers · castor · paddle · webbed · pelt · guard hairs · underfur · claws · glands · flat tail

aquatic

water

Clear essential liquid

  • streamSteady continuous flow
  • pondSmall still body
  • riverLarge flowing watercourse

swim · diving · freshwater · wetland · riparian · bank · shoreline · underwater · surface · plunge

lodge

dam

Water-holding barrier

  • denPrivate room or lair
  • burrowAnimal's dug dwelling
  • shelterProtected place or structure

colony · mud · chamber · family · kits · monogamous · territorial

engineering

dam

Water-holding barrier

sediment · channel · meander · watershed · water table · flow control · canal · spillway · debris

ecosystem

keystone

Arch's central locking stone

conservation · wetlands · flora · fauna · ecological · watershed · wildlife · species · environmental · rewilding

culture

MIT

Cambridge research university

  • CanadaNorthern North American nation
  • fur tradeCommercial exchange of animal skins
  • peltFur-bearing animal skin

trapping · hat · rendezvous · mountain men · voyageurs

gnawing

chew

Grind with teeth

  • woodTree-derived building material
  • barkSharp canine vocalization
  • timberWood for construction

nibble · bite · fell · trees · branches · logs · aspen · willow · birch · poplar

rodent

mammal

Warm-blooded, milk-producing animal

burrowing · foraging · cache · quadruped · muskrat · woodchuck · capybara · nutria · coypu · semi-aquatic

Categories
Opposites
aquatic rodent taxonomy

beaversotters

Semiaquatic weasel relatives

muskrats · nutria · capybaras

ecological role/behavior

beaversdestroyers

Fast armed naval vessels

parasites · locusts · invasive species · scavengers

symbolic industriousness

beaverssloths

Extremely slow arboreal mammals

sluggards · layabouts · idlers · loafers · slackers

Phrases
Family

beaver, eager beaver, beavering, beaver away

Familiarity
Top 20,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G