Chironectes

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + νήκτης (nḗktēs, “swimmer”).

Proper noun

Chironectes m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Didelphidae – marsupial water opossum; yapok.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.