otters
- 1Plural of otter.
Sea otters wrap themselves in kelp so they don't drift apart while sleeping.
Conservationists released a dozen otters back into the cleaned-up wetland.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, and it belongs to the countable uses of otter: the animals of the subfamily Lutrinae and, in slang, slender hairy men as opposed to bears. When otter means the fur or the meat, it is a mass noun and stays singular: a collar trimmed with otter, not with otters. The obsolete sense for annatto dye and the archaic form of attar were mass nouns too, so they do not take this form.
otters is a form of otter
otter, noun: A meat-eating mammal of the weasel family that lives in or near water, with webbed feet and dense, water-repellent fur. Full entry
- Forms
- otter also pluralotters plural
- Spelling
- otter → otters: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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