mink

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mink /mɪŋk/ noun (plural mink or minks)  1  [countable, uncountable]DCCHBA a small animal with soft brown fur, or the very valuable fur of this animal which is used to make coats, hats etc 水貂；水貂皮 a mink coat 一件貂皮大衣2. [countable] a coat or jacket made of mink 貂皮大衣；貂皮外套

Examples from the Corpus

mink• Only a small percentage of the original 10,000 minks survived the ordeal.• Hare hunting and coursing and mink hunting do not have a big effect on the populations.• Occasionally, the clouds, cleared and I was able to film mink scavenging along the rocky shoreline at low tide.• Hairs from her mink coat had been found in the gazebo by the pond.• He is a dandy-looking dude too, with slick black ponytail and, always, a full-length mink coat.• You like mink, or you like sable?• But unlike the mink I had filmed the previous year, this one appeared not to be very active.Origin mink (1400-1500) Swedish

mink nounChinese  

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mink
mink /mɪŋk/ noun (plural mink or minks)1. [uncountable and countable] a small animal with soft brown fur, or the very valuable fur of this animal which is used to make coats, hats etc:
    a mink coat
2. [countable] a coat or jacket made of mink

minkBrE /mɪŋk/ 🔊NAmE /mɪŋk/ 🔊 noun (

plural

mink or

minks) [countable] a small wild animal with thick shiny fur, a long body and short legs. Mink are often kept on farms for their fur. 水貂◆a mink farm水貂饲养场 [uncountable] the skin and shiny brown fur of the mink, used for making expensive coats, etc. 貂皮◆a mink jacket貂皮外套 [countable] a coat or jacket made of mink 貂皮大衣；貂皮外套