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viscacha|vɪˈskætʃə|
Also 8 viscacho, 8–9 viscaccia, 9 vizcacha, vischacha.
[a. Sp. viscacha (also biscacha biscacha), ad. Quichuan (h)uiscacha. Hence also F. viscaque.]
One or other of two large burrowing rodents of South America, related to the chinchilla. a. The Lagidium cuvierii, inhabiting the upper Andes from Chile to Ecuador; the Alpine viscacha.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxxviii. 314 There are other small animalles which they call Viscachas, and are like to hares, although they be bigger. 1781Pennant Hist. Quadrup. II. 376 Allied to this [Cape Hare] seems the Viscachos, or Viscachas, mentioned by Acosta and Feuillée, in their accounts of Peru. 1801Shaw Gen. Zool. II. i. 209 Viscaccia... This species is said to have the general appearance of a Rabbet. 1811W. Walton Peruv. Sheep 175 They afford furs and ornamental skins,..particularly the viscacha, which is a species of rabbit. 1849Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia IV. 126 The general colour of the viscacha of the western acclivities of the Peruvian Andes..is grayish ash, clouded here and there with a tint of brown. 1879E. P. Wright Animal Life (Cassell) 196 The Alpine Viscacha (Lagidium cuvierii) inhabits the lofty Andes of Chili, Bolivia, and Peru.
b. The Lagostomus trichodactylus of the southern Argentine pampas.
1836Partington's Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. II. 26 The Viscacha (Lagostomus trichodactylus) is about the size of a rabbit. 1855Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. III. 464 The Viscacha..inhabits the great plains of Buenos Ayres, where it digs burrows for itself. c1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 138 The Viscacha lives on the Pampas from Buenos Ayres to the borders of Patagonia.
So viscache. rare—1.
1847–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. i. 373 In the viscache the squamous portion of the temporal bone is..deeply indented. |