viscacha

[prettygoodword]

viscacha (vi-SKAH-chuh) - n., any of a handful of species of large burrowing Andean rodents (genera Lagidium and Lagostomus) related to chinchillas.


Long ears and bushy tails, these guys, on a critter about the size of a groundhog. From Spanish vizcacha, from Quechua wisk'acha.


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---L.