paca
noun
a large, white-spotted, almost tailless rodent, Agouti paca, of Central and South America, having features resembling a guinea pig and rabbit: valued as food.
pacas
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pluralof paca.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Fish such as wolf fish, peacock bass, and South American lungfish were especially common, accompanied by reptiles including caimans and turtles, and mammals such as capybaras, pacas, and armadillos.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
They believe that he has subterranean campos and hunting grounds in the forest, well stocked with pacas and deer.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
They dwell in small troops or families, of six or seven individuals each, and their food is furnished by the pacas, agoutis, and other small rodent animals of tropical America.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey
The larger agouti, or mara, is sometimes classed between the agoutis and the pacas.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
