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Перевод: mink
[прилагательное]
норковый;
[существительное]
норка
Тезаурус:
- It falls relatively easy prey to a large number of its predators - man, foxes, stoats, weasels, mink, buzzards and others - yet it is able to maintain itself in very significant numbers and those very numbers do, in fact, shield other important members of the British wildlife community from a high degree of predation.
- For Maggie and her mink!
- "Don't you ever put me through that situation again," she snarled through clenched teeth, tugging irritably at the sleeve of her mink jacket.
- The battle to rid the canal of mink is being organised by Mow Cop AC secretary Phil Carr who put out an appear for other clubs with a mink problem to contact him.
- The unwanted jongleurs even proffer tourist information: apparently if we disembark at Oxford Street we'll be in one of the finest shopping centres in the world, so why don't we "all fuck off there and buy yer wives a mink?
- The reason why I have detained readers of New Scientist with such minutiae is that the "Mink on Shetland" presents us with a case study of the way in which decisions affecting the wildlife of Britain are being left to the ephemeral whims of local personages .
- The Joneses became Mormon pioneers who, at the request of Brigham Young, founded the town of Mink Creek Idaho just over the border from Utah.
- His wife looked like a film star and sounded like a docker, and on their previous visits I'd managed to remain invisible while checking in her mink and his Crombie.
- And got a Silver Mink!
- So let me turn to an issue, less Earth shattering, but no less vexatious - the keeping of mink in Shetland.
- Mink keeping in the past did lead to the temporary establishment of wild mink - the escape occurred at Womdale, in Shetland when the winds blew a hut through the farmer's perimeter fence, liberating a number of unmated female mink.
- Shetland is one of the few areas in Britain which remains free of feral mink.
- "Is that fur mink or rabbit?"
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