capybara
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əˈbɑr noun
a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
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| —n | |
| the largest rodent: a pig-sized amphibious hystricomorph, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, resembling a guinea pig and inhabiting river banks in Central and South America: family Hydrochoeridae | |
| [C18: from Portuguese capibara, from Tupi] | |
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Capybara
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Word Origin & History
capybara
1774, from some Tupi (Brazilian) native name.
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Example sentences
Powerful coils literally squeeze the life out of prey, including even the capybara, the largest rodent in the world.
The capybara meat is dried and salted, then shredded and seasoned.
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