vizcacha

American  

[vi-skah-chuh] / vɪˈskɑ tʃə /

noun

1. a variant of viscacha.

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vizcacha British  

/ vɪsˈkætʃə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of viscacha

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Example Sentences

Take, for example, the Chalchalero Vizcacha rat, whose range has been reduced to less than five square miles.

From Salon

In Chilean Patagonia, Tompkins Conservation espouses a “rewilding approach to conservation”, creating corridors for pumas and other wild cats, huemul deer, Darwin’s rhea, guanaco, Wolffsohn’s vizcacha and condor.

From The Guardian

The Little Red-backs inhabit open unsheltered plains, and have so great a predilection for bare ground on which they can run freely about, that on their arrival on the pampas, where the earth is thickly carpeted with grass, they are seen attaching themselves to roads, sheep-pens, borders of streams, vizcacha villages, and similar places.

From Project Gutenberg

On the grassy pampas the Miners invariably attach themselves to the Vizcacheras—as the groups of great burrows made by the large rodent, the Vizcacha, are called; for there is always a space free from grass surrounding the burrows where the birds can run freely about.

From Project Gutenberg

Though the birds inhabit the Vizcacha village all the year, they seem always to make a fresh hole to breed in every spring, the forsaken holes being given up to the small Swallow, Atticora cyanoleuca.

From Project Gutenberg