- a variation of viscacha.
vizcacha
Americannoun
noun
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This is the case with the vizcacha, the large rodent of the pampas, which lives with its fellows, to the number of twenty or thirty, in a cluster of huge burrows.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
The abundance of cattle on the pampas has made it unnecessary to use the vizcacha as an article of food.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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)
But as soon as these wild regions are settled by man the pumas are exterminated, and the sole remaining foe of the vizcacha is the fox, comparatively an insignificant one.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
When the vizcacha has made his habitation, it is but a single burrow, with only himself for an inhabitant, perhaps for many months.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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