castor fiber

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   a European variety of beaver

   SynonymsOld World beaver

   Broaderbeaver

Questions about castor fiber

What does castor fiber mean?

castor fiber means "a European variety of beaver".

What is another word for castor fiber?

Close synonyms include Old World beaver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is castor fiber a common word?

castor fiber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.