furbearer
noun
any furry animal, especially one whose fur is of commercial value.
furbearing
-
a word derived from
furbearer.
Example Sentences
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In the 2018-2019 trapping season, licensed trappers caught more than 2.7 million furbearing animals — a category that includes coyotes, beavers, raccoons, mink, and wolves.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2022
In the 19th century, furriers killed off many of the furbearing animals and, in so doing, their trade as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since they hunt the furbearing animals in the neighboring forests during the winter, they diminish the food supply of the hunters who dwell permanently in the forest, and thus make their life still more difficult.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
If this is true, it is an indication of the immense supply of furbearing animals, especially beaver, available at that time.
From The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware by Sydney George Fisher
Comrades of the trap line, come down to camp and let us talk over this question of the fast disappearance of the furbearing animals.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
