Noun: nutria
| Singular | nutria |
| Plural | nutrias |
Sample Sentences
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1986, Identifying and Managing Aquatic Rodents in Texas, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, page 13,
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Nutria are native to South America and were successfully established in North America in the early 1930s as a new furbearing species.
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Furthermore, nutria engage in the outright destruction of muskrat lodges to create nesting habitat for themselves. [2000, National Wetlands Newsletter, Volumes 22-23, Environmental Law Institute, page 8:]
Nouns inflected like nutria
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish nutria (“otter”), from Latin lutra. See: Spanish Nouns '
nutria', Latin Nouns '
lutra'.