ottery
adjEtymology From otter + -y.
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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
- Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun.1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236:
- […] this guy she's seen before with the . . . ferret? or mongoose? ... an ottery thing, whatever, on a clothesline leash. . . .1996, Albert Goldbarth, Adventures in Ancient Egypt: Poems, Ohio State University Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 23:
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- Spraints consist mostly of food remains, such as fish bones, to which are added the fairly inconspicuous secretions of two anal glands, situated along the gut close to the anus; they produce the 'ottery' smell.2006, Hans Kruuk, Otters: Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, Oxford University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 79: