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vizcacha

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viz⋅ca⋅cha

[vi-skah-chuh]
–noun
viscacha.

vis⋅ca⋅cha

[vi-skah-chuh]
–noun
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.
Also, vizcacha.


Origin:
1595–1605; < Sp < Quechua wisk’acha
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