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capybara

or cap·i·ba·ra

[ kap-uh-bahr-uh ]

noun

  1. a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.


capybara

/ ˌkæpɪˈbɑːrə /

noun

  1. 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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of capybara1

1765–75; < New Latin < Portuguese capibara < Tupi

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Word History and Origins

Origin of capybara1

C18: from Portuguese capibara, from Tupi

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Example Sentences

You can prompt it, for example, to produce “a painting of a capybara sitting in a field at sunrise.”

Though it may have never seen this before, it can mix and match what it knows of paintings, capybaras, fields, and sunrises to dream up dozens of examples.

Venezuela: The country to the south takes us in a pretty weird direction by offering the capybara.

We sat down to supper, Franz eager to partake of his capybara.

A little game, a capybara, and a bird like a crow with a brown rump, were hung on the screen.

The bony palate between the grinding teeth is sometimes as in the Hares very short, sometimes as in the Capybara very long.

Like its big relation, the capybara, it always takes up its abode in the neighbourhood of water.

The squeaking was still going on within, so we knew that Dame Capybara and her family were at home.

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