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labba

labba noun: a paca (large rodent) or its meat.

Noun (1)

labba (countable and uncountable, plural labbas or labba)

  1. (Guyana) A paca (large rodent) or its meat.
    • During the last three months, of my stay, labba meat (Cœlogenys paca), which is justly looked upon as the caviare of the bush, was fairly plentiful. This was due to a small black and white dog, belonging to one of the boat hands, which hunted labba excellently; sometimes killing four or five in a...1888, H. I. Perkins, “Seven months up the Puruni River”, in Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana
    • Game included accouries (a kind of guinea pig), water-dogs (otters), labbas (hollow cheek pacas), deer, wild hogs, mypouris (tapirs), monkeys, sloths, water haas (capybaras), armadillos, snakes, tigers, jaguars, iguanas, manatees (sea cows), etc.1995, Brian L. Moore, Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838-1900, McGill-Queen's Press

Noun (2) capitalized: Labba

Labba (plural Labbas)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Labbay

Forms of labba

plurallabbas
plurallabba
pluralLabbas

Questions about labba

What does labba mean?
Labba means a paca (large rodent) or its meat.
What part of speech is labba?
Labba is a noun.
What is the plural of labba?
The plural of labba is labbas.

Words near labba in the dictionary

  1. Labau
  2. Labauve
  3. Labauves
  4. Labay
  5. Labays
  6. labba
  7. Labbai
  8. Labbais
  9. labbas
  10. Labbay
  11. Labbays

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