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mink

[ US /ˈmɪŋk/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪŋk/ ]
NOUN
  1. fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks
  2. the expensive fur of a mink
  3. slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur

How To Use mink In A Sentence

  • A boa made from black water mink is worth about 50 dollars, a collarette about $100,00 and a coat reaching down to the hips would cost about $250,00. Black Beaver The Trapper
  • Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
  • A few well-garlanded madams of the society crowd passed by, gossiping, their rich black minks set for the chill in the Springtime air, their heels clopping gently on the sidewalk.
  • In the 1997 season Norwegian whalers in 31 vessels killed 503 Minke whales of their 580-whale quota.
  • Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
  • Voles are an important source of food for many predators, including snakes, hawks, owls, coyotes, weasels, foxes, mink and badgers.
  • The short answer is quantum weirdness like GHZ states demonstrate the quantum effects are interconnected in Einsteinian/Minkowskian space-time. A Voice from the Middle Ground
  • While the cod, pollack and haddock may have all but disappeared, you stand a good chance of spotting porpoises, minke whales and even the odd beluga.
  • Darwin had already cited the mink and the otter as transitional in conversion of land carnivores to aquatic habits.
  • A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
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