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tuza|ˈtuːzə|
Also tuça (erron. tuca).
[a. Sp. tuza, ad. Mexican tuçan or tozan, the native name.]
A Mexican pocket-gopher or pouched rat: a rodent, formerly supposed to be a kind of mole.
[1651F. Hernandez Hist. Anim. & Min. Novae Hisp. i. xxiv. 7 De Tucan, seu Talparum Indicarum quodam genere.] 1787Cullen tr. Clavigero's Mexico II. 321 Tuza, not Tucan as Count de Buffon writes, in Mexican tozan, a quadruped of Mexico of the mole kind but larger and more beautiful. 1895C. H. Merriam in U.S. Dept. Agric., N. Amer. Fauna No. 8. 112 The tuza series [of Geomys] inhabits the South Atlantic and Gulf States south of the Savannah River and east of the Mississippi... The members of the tuza series agree among themselves and differ from the remaining forms of the genus Geomys in having longer and more naked tails, and in numerous cranial characters. |