bizcacha
bizcacha is the rare form of viscacha.
Meaning of viscacha
Noun
viscacha (plural viscachas)
- Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes Mountains, of the genera Lagidium and Lagostomus.
- From the tenderness of its covering, it is not, though a stronger and larger animal, so able to bear the severity of winter in the Andes as the Chinchilla, though it is not so decidedly an animal of the plains as the viscacha of Paraguay.1836, Charles Frederick Partington, “Chinchillidae”, in The British Cyclopæedia of Natural History, page 27
- Synonyms:
- chinchillon
Forms of bizcacha
| plural | bizcachas |
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Questions about bizcacha
- What is bizcacha the rare form of?
- Bizcacha is the rare form of viscacha.
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