- a variation of viscacha.
vizcacha
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
Molina, in his Natural History of Chill, says the vizcacha uses its tail as a weapon; but then Molina is not always reliable.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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 W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
The reason is evident enough; in desert regions the vizcacha has several deadly enemies in the larger rapacious mammals.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
When a vizcacha dies in his burrow the carcass is, after some days, dragged out and left upon the mound.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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