Viscacha

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several gregarious, burrowing South American rodents of the genera Lagostomus and Lagidium, related to and resembling the chinchilla.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A rodent native to the Andes Mountains of South America, in the chinchilla family Chinchillidae.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A South American rodent mammal, of the family Chinchillidæ and genus Lagostomus, L. trichdactylus, inhabiting the pampas, and playing there the same part in the fauna that is taken in North America by the prairie-dogs and other spermophiles.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas
    • Equivalent
    viz-cacha   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gnawer    rodent   
    Cross Reference
    alpine viscacha   
    Variant
    biscacha    bizcacha    vischacha    vishatscha   
     
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