| viscacha (def. 2). |
[vi-skah-chuh] 
| 1. | a burrowing rodent, Lagostomus maximus, about the size of a groundhog, inhabiting the pampas of Paraguay and Argentina, allied to the chinchilla. |
| 2. | Also called mountain viscacha. a related rodent of the genus Lagidium, of the Andes, about the size of a squirrel, having rabbitlike ears and a squirrellike tail. |
| mountain viscacha | |
noun | |
| a rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity [syn: mountain chinchilla] |
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