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viscacha
or ··
[ vi-skah-chuh ]
noun
- a burrowing rodent, Lagostomus maximus, about the size of a groundhog, inhabiting the pampas of Paraguay and Argentina, allied to the chinchilla.
- Also called mountain viscacha. a related rodent of the genus Lagidium, of the Andes, about the size of a squirrel, having rabbitlike ears and a squirrellike tail.
viscacha
/ ɪˈæʃə /
noun
- a gregarious burrowing hystricomorph rodent, Lagostomus maximus, of southern South America, similar to but larger than the chinchillas: family Chinchillidae
- mountain viscachathe mountain chinchilla See chinchilla
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of viscacha1
1595–1605; < Spanish < Quechua ɾ’a
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of viscacha1
C17: from Spanish, from Quechuan ɾá
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When I saw a viscacha—a weird rodent with a rabbit body and a squirrel tail—I thought my mind was playing tricks on me.
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These villages being on the level prairie, the viscachas are careful to build them high enough so that floods will not reach them.
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The viscachas and chinchillas resemble the rabbit in form and color, but they have shorter ears and long rough tails.
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There the biscacha, or viscacha—as it is indifferently spelt—plays pretty much the same part as the rabbit in our northern lands.
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They were chinchillas and viscachas, which he had taken out of his snares set overnight.
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