vizcacha
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It is a very unusual thing to eat the vizcacha, most people, and especially the gauchos, having a silly unaccountable prejudice against their flesh.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Probably the beaver possesses some rude instinct similar to that of the vizcacha.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
I have already spoken of rats, opossums, and armadillos; also of the vizcacha, the big burrowing rodent that made his villages all over the plain.
From Far Away and Long Ago by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
The sites of which the vizcacha invariably makes choice to work on, as well as his manner of burrow-ing, adapt him peculiarly to live and thrive on the open pampas.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
The language of the vizcacha is wonderful for its variety.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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