pampasn.

Brit.

/ˈpampəs/, U.S.

/ˈpɑmpəz/

Forms:

α. (In singular form) 1600s– pampa.

β. (In plural form) 1700s pampa's, 1700s– pampas.

Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymons: Spanish pampas, pampa.

Etymology: < American Spanish pampas and its singular pampa (1609 or earlier) < Quechua pampa land, plain, ground. Compare Quechua bamba, regional variant of pampa occurring in place names Moyobamba, Chuquibamba, etc. N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation (pæ·mpăz) /ˈpæmpəz/. The pronunciation with final /s/ (corresponding to the Spanish plural morpheme) rather than /z/ (corresponding to the English one) may perhaps correlate with an apprehension of pampas (in sense 1b) as a singular noun, and hence with the use of singular agreement (although in fact the word is uncommon as the subject of a sentence or with quantifiers, anaphoric pronouns, etc.).

1. An extensive treeless plain in South America south of the Amazon; (also) such plains collectively. Cf. llano n.

a. In singular form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > in specific country

savannah1555

llano1613

vega1645

steppea1670

pampasa1672

pampas1703

prairie1773

veld1785

Great Plains1794

puszta1839

campo1863

polje1894

mudflats1947

a1672 Earl of Sandwich tr. A. A. Barba Art of Metals (1674) i. xv. 57 Near unto the place called Aqua Caliente..there is a ‘Pampa’ full of a pure transparent Chrystalline Stone.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 210/1 In the direction due north the pampa narrows between the Parana and a ridge..called the Sierra de Cordova.

1847 J. H. Ingraham Paul Perril II. xvi. 69 After reaching the top of the bank we could see nothing on pampa or river..and secure in our possession of the spot, we descended to the skiff and undressed ourselves to bathe.

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 104 At length we came to a rocky ridge which bounded the vast pampa of Vilque.

1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest ii. 33 You could approach fairly close to most of the bird-life on the pampa.

1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Feb. 47/2 The gaucho, a free man, rode over the unfenced and limitless pampa.

b. In plural form (usually with the).

(a) With plural agreement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > in specific country

savannah1555

llano1613

vega1645

steppea1670

pampasa1672

pampas1703

prairie1773

veld1785

Great Plains1794

puszta1839

campo1863

polje1894

mudflats1947

1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile i. xii. 27/2 The Colds of the Pampas of Cuyo and Tucuman are..insupportable.

1790 J. Morse Hist. Amer. i. 92 Might not others [sc. species] have been contented with the boundless plains of Tartary, instead of travelling thousands of miles to the extensive flats of Pampas?

1810 Edinb. Rev. 16 241 The pampas of Buenos Ayres are plains of the same kind [as the llanos or savannahs], but still more extensive.

1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xvii. 87 The Llanos and the Pampas..are really steppes.

1909 Chatterbox 38/1 The Indian tribes which inhabit the pampas of South America have similar herds of half-wild horses.

2000 A. Karlen Biogr. of Germ (2001) xxii. 147 Argentine hemorrhagic fever emerged because cheap herbicides had made it possible to kill the pampas' dense native grasses, making room for commercial crops.

(b) With singular agreement.

ΚΠ

1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus xv. 118 When the pampas is a cocoa orchard.

1979 P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express (1980) xix. 380 The ‘humid pampas’ of the south, with its cattle ranches and its emptiness.

1991 C. Tudge Global Ecol. (BNC) 67 The pampas has the guanaco and the pampas deer.

2. With capital initial. A member of a South American Indian people inhabiting the pampas. Usually in plural form (with the and plural agreement). Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun]

pampas1703

cholo1851

1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile iii. vii. 81/2 These Pampa's..have no Houses, in which they differ from all Mankind.

1756 R. Rolt New & Accurate Hist. S.-Amer. iii. ii. 562 The Pampas seem to inhabit a considerable part towards the north.

1835 People's Press (Gettysburg, Pa.) 13 Mar. 1/2 In person the Pampa is about six feet high, strongly limbed, with a broad flat countenance.

1872 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 1 194 The second race of natives is usually known as the Pampas or Penck, whose district lies between the Chupat river and the Rio Negro.

1992 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 72 77 Carrera joined with the Ranquel Indians and Pampas groups to raid Salto and Melincué in 1820.

3. In singular form. In Argentina: the criollo breed of sheep, as typical of the pampas; a sheep of this breed. rare.Cf. pampas sheep n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > specific breeds or members of

mug1596

down1721

Shropshire1768

Norfolk sheep1778

Ryeland1786

Southdown1786

Persian1794

Leicester1798

Southdowner1799

Ryeland1802

loaghtan1812

Manx loaghtan1812

herdwick1837

Wallachian1837

Norfolk1851

Teeswater1861

bluefaced Leicester1864

Rough Fell1871

Border Leicester1873

Mexican1878

Cheviot1883

fat-tail1888

pampas1892

pampas sheep1895

turbary1908

karakul1913

East Friesian1949

Texel1949

Norfolk Horn1961

Colbred1962

1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 108 The pampa descends to us from the first sheep introduced into La Plata about three centuries ago.

1969 I. L. Mason World Dict. Livestock Breeds, Types & Varieties (ed. 2) 197 Criollo (Spanish America); orig. from Spanish Churro and Spanish Merino 1548–1812; syn...Pampa (Argentina).

Compounds

(chiefly in plural form).

C1.

Pampas Indian n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > Indians of South America

Patagona1544

Mochica1581

Arawak1596

Arawakan1596

Tapuia1613

Quechua1688

Galibi1698

Abipon1717

Pehuenche1756

Patagonian1767

Amazonian Indian1769

Warao1769

Tehuelche1774

Abiponian1786

two-finger1796

Guarani1797

Shipibo1805

Araucanian1809

Tupinamba1810

Muisca1814

Pampas Indian1820

Guaycuru1822

Lengua1822

Fuegian1825

Wapishana1836

Wai Wai1840

Yucatec1843

Tupi1845

Tupi-Guarani1850

Amazonian1858

Aymara1860

Jivaro1862

Lokono1868

Quechuan1871

Yucatecan1871

Yunca1871

Mapuche1876

Chibcha1877

Ona1884

Yahgan1884

Terena1891

Xavante1904

urubu1948

Saramaccan1959

Yanomamö1965

Mochican1967

1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile iii. vii. 81/2 Next to these Indians of Cuyo, are the Indians Pampa's, call'd so because they Inhabit those vast Plains.]

1820 H. M. Brackenridge Voy. S. Amer. II. 28 The pampas Indians, formerly the terror of the settlements..carry on a small traffic with the whites.

1826 F. B. Head Rough Notes Pampas 9 The south part of the Pampas is inhabited by the Pampas Indians, who have no fixed abode.

1997 J. Diamond Guns, Germs & Steel iii. 75 The Plains Indians of North America, the Araucanian Indians of southern Chile, and the Pampas Indians of Argentina fought off invading whites longer than did any other Native Americans.

C2.

pampas cat n. a wild cat of the pampas, Felis colocolo, having long yellow-grey fur marked with oblique brownish stripes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Felis > other types of

margay1775

pampas cat1827

marbled cat1840

golden cat1871

leopard cat1884

1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 170 The Pageros or Pampa Cat.

1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 96 Lynxes are short-tailed Cats... There are many others, some, as the Pampas Cat (F. pajeros) grading into the next group.

1878 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 54 The Pampas Cat is a comparatively harmless beast, not preying upon poultry-yards, but confining itself to the small Mammals which abound in the South American steppes.

1991 R. M. Nowak Mammals of World (ed. 5) II. 1202/1 The pampas cat inhabits open grassland in some areas but also enters humid forests and mountainous regions.

† pampas-clay n. Obsolete rare a bluish South American clay deposit (see quot. 1885).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > other clays

red clayc1475

urry1669

blae1724

cat-dirt1747

iron clay1750

till1762

mulatto clay1788

oak-tree clay1794

porcelain jasper1794

porcellanite1794

Karoo ground1836

plinthite1836

papa1851

Bradford clay1858

Indianaite1868

sinopite1868

hydrobiotite1881

pampas-clay1885

byon1892

potato clay1896

bentonite1898

quick clay1901

gumbotil1916

1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. i Pampas-clay, a bluish clay occurring in beds of great thickness, and widely distributed in the pampas of South America. It is ossiferous.

pampas deer n. a small deer of South American grassland, Odocoileus bezoarticus, the male of which has scent glands on its rear hooves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Ozotoceros (pampas deer)

guazuti1837

pampas deer1860

1860 M. Reid Odd People 446 A man on foot can approach much nearer to any game, than if he were mounted upon a horse. This is true..also of the large pampas deer.

1913 W. T. Hornaday Our Vanishing Wild Life xvi. 169 At present, we need not worry about the marsh deer, the pampas deer, the guemal, or the venado.

2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. The Pantanal has its own distinctive wildlife: plains alive with pampas deer; rivers heaving with piranhas; [etc.].

pampas flicker n. the campo flicker, Colaptes campestris, a black, white, and yellow woodpecker of eastern South America.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Colaptes (flicker) > colaptes campestris (pampas flicker)

ground woodpecker1867

pampas woodpecker1870

pampas flicker1912

1912 Ld. Brabourne & C. Chubb Birds S. Amer. I. 168 Colaptes... campestris... Pampas Flicker. Carpentero.

1957 M. H. Mitchell Observ. Birds S.E. Brazil 120 Pampas Flickers, on first sight or hearing, immediately recall to the northerner Colaptes aureus.

pampas fox n. (also pampa fox) any of several small South American mammals resembling a fox or a dog, esp. the fox Dusicyon gymnocercus, of eastern and southern parts of South America.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > miscellaneous types of

grey fox1781

pampas fox1923

1923 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 36 55 Specimens from the high savanna of Bogotá..indicate that the pampa fox of this area is a depauperate pallid race of the lowland Cerdocyon thous.

1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest v. 105 He was a small, delicately made, grey pampas fox, with slender legs and enormous brush and eager brown eyes.

1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. viii. 208/2 Carnivores on the pampas are the pampa fox (Dusicyon gymnocercus), which is more like a jackal or coyote than like a British fox, and the curious long-legged maned wolf.

† pampas partridge n. Obsolete the great tinamou, Tinamus major.

ΚΠ

1860 M. Reid Odd People 451 Another occupation in which the Patagonian engages is the snaring of the Pampas partridge.

† pampas-rice n. Obsolete white durra, Sorghum bicolor (Cernuum group), a variety of sorghum with a drooping panicle grown in parts of the southern U.S.

ΚΠ

1880 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. 5/3 The Produce Exchange received yesterday from California a specimen of the so-called Pampas rice, recently brought into notice by the Kansas Board of Agriculture as a new cereal which will grow on the most arid soil.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pampas-rice, a variety of the common sorghum, Sorghum vulgare, with a drooping panicle: grown to some extent in the southern United States.

† pampas sheep n. Obsolete = sense 3.

ΚΠ

1895 N. Amer. Rev. July 43 Many kinds..manage to live and thrive with very little aid from their masters. Yet it is found that even the hardy Pampas sheep cannot hold its own when that aid is wanting.

† pampas woodpecker n. Obsolete = pampas flicker n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Colaptes (flicker) > colaptes campestris (pampas flicker)

ground woodpecker1867

pampas woodpecker1870

pampas flicker1912

1870 Proc. Zool. Soc. 705 (title) Notes on the habits of the pampas woodpecker.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pampas
释义	pampasn. Brit. /ˈpampəs/, U.S. /ˈpɑmpəz/ Forms: α. (In singular form) 1600s– pampa. β. (In plural form) 1700s pampa's, 1700s– pampas. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymons: Spanish pampas, pampa. Etymology: < American Spanish pampas and its singular pampa (1609 or earlier) < Quechua pampa land, plain, ground. Compare Quechua bamba, regional variant of pampa occurring in place names Moyobamba, Chuquibamba, etc. N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation (pæ·mpăz) /ˈpæmpəz/. The pronunciation with final /s/ (corresponding to the Spanish plural morpheme) rather than /z/ (corresponding to the English one) may perhaps correlate with an apprehension of pampas (in sense 1b) as a singular noun, and hence with the use of singular agreement (although in fact the word is uncommon as the subject of a sentence or with quantifiers, anaphoric pronouns, etc.). 1. An extensive treeless plain in South America south of the Amazon; (also) such plains collectively. Cf. llano n. a. In singular form. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > in specific country savannah1555 llano1613 vega1645 steppea1670 pampasa1672 pampas1703 prairie1773 veld1785 Great Plains1794 puszta1839 campo1863 polje1894 mudflats1947 a1672 Earl of Sandwich tr. A. A. Barba Art of Metals (1674) i. xv. 57 Near unto the place called Aqua Caliente..there is a ‘Pampa’ full of a pure transparent Chrystalline Stone. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 210/1 In the direction due north the pampa narrows between the Parana and a ridge..called the Sierra de Cordova. 1847 J. H. Ingraham Paul Perril II. xvi. 69 After reaching the top of the bank we could see nothing on pampa or river..and secure in our possession of the spot, we descended to the skiff and undressed ourselves to bathe. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 104 At length we came to a rocky ridge which bounded the vast pampa of Vilque. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest ii. 33 You could approach fairly close to most of the bird-life on the pampa. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Feb. 47/2 The gaucho, a free man, rode over the unfenced and limitless pampa. b. In plural form (usually with the). (a) With plural agreement. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > in specific country savannah1555 llano1613 vega1645 steppea1670 pampasa1672 pampas1703 prairie1773 veld1785 Great Plains1794 puszta1839 campo1863 polje1894 mudflats1947 1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile i. xii. 27/2 The Colds of the Pampas of Cuyo and Tucuman are..insupportable. 1790 J. Morse Hist. Amer. i. 92 Might not others [sc. species] have been contented with the boundless plains of Tartary, instead of travelling thousands of miles to the extensive flats of Pampas? 1810 Edinb. Rev. 16 241 The pampas of Buenos Ayres are plains of the same kind [as the llanos or savannahs], but still more extensive. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xvii. 87 The Llanos and the Pampas..are really steppes. 1909 Chatterbox 38/1 The Indian tribes which inhabit the pampas of South America have similar herds of half-wild horses. 2000 A. Karlen Biogr. of Germ (2001) xxii. 147 Argentine hemorrhagic fever emerged because cheap herbicides had made it possible to kill the pampas' dense native grasses, making room for commercial crops. (b) With singular agreement. ΚΠ 1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus xv. 118 When the pampas is a cocoa orchard. 1979 P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express (1980) xix. 380 The ‘humid pampas’ of the south, with its cattle ranches and its emptiness. 1991 C. Tudge Global Ecol. (BNC) 67 The pampas has the guanaco and the pampas deer. 2. With capital initial. A member of a South American Indian people inhabiting the pampas. Usually in plural form (with the and plural agreement). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] pampas1703 cholo1851 1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile iii. vii. 81/2 These Pampa's..have no Houses, in which they differ from all Mankind. 1756 R. Rolt New & Accurate Hist. S.-Amer. iii. ii. 562 The Pampas seem to inhabit a considerable part towards the north. 1835 People's Press (Gettysburg, Pa.) 13 Mar. 1/2 In person the Pampa is about six feet high, strongly limbed, with a broad flat countenance. 1872 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 1 194 The second race of natives is usually known as the Pampas or Penck, whose district lies between the Chupat river and the Rio Negro. 1992 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 72 77 Carrera joined with the Ranquel Indians and Pampas groups to raid Salto and Melincué in 1820. 3. In singular form. In Argentina: the criollo breed of sheep, as typical of the pampas; a sheep of this breed. rare.Cf. pampas sheep n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > specific breeds or members of mug1596 down1721 Shropshire1768 Norfolk sheep1778 Ryeland1786 Southdown1786 Persian1794 Leicester1798 Southdowner1799 Ryeland1802 loaghtan1812 Manx loaghtan1812 herdwick1837 Wallachian1837 Norfolk1851 Teeswater1861 bluefaced Leicester1864 Rough Fell1871 Border Leicester1873 Mexican1878 Cheviot1883 fat-tail1888 pampas1892 pampas sheep1895 turbary1908 karakul1913 East Friesian1949 Texel1949 Norfolk Horn1961 Colbred1962 1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 108 The pampa descends to us from the first sheep introduced into La Plata about three centuries ago. 1969 I. L. Mason World Dict. Livestock Breeds, Types & Varieties (ed. 2) 197 Criollo (Spanish America); orig. from Spanish Churro and Spanish Merino 1548–1812; syn...Pampa (Argentina). Compounds (chiefly in plural form). C1. Pampas Indian n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > Indians of South America Patagona1544 Mochica1581 Arawak1596 Arawakan1596 Tapuia1613 Quechua1688 Galibi1698 Abipon1717 Pehuenche1756 Patagonian1767 Amazonian Indian1769 Warao1769 Tehuelche1774 Abiponian1786 two-finger1796 Guarani1797 Shipibo1805 Araucanian1809 Tupinamba1810 Muisca1814 Pampas Indian1820 Guaycuru1822 Lengua1822 Fuegian1825 Wapishana1836 Wai Wai1840 Yucatec1843 Tupi1845 Tupi-Guarani1850 Amazonian1858 Aymara1860 Jivaro1862 Lokono1868 Quechuan1871 Yucatecan1871 Yunca1871 Mapuche1876 Chibcha1877 Ona1884 Yahgan1884 Terena1891 Xavante1904 urubu1948 Saramaccan1959 Yanomamö1965 Mochican1967 1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile iii. vii. 81/2 Next to these Indians of Cuyo, are the Indians Pampa's, call'd so because they Inhabit those vast Plains.] 1820 H. M. Brackenridge Voy. S. Amer. II. 28 The pampas Indians, formerly the terror of the settlements..carry on a small traffic with the whites. 1826 F. B. Head Rough Notes Pampas 9 The south part of the Pampas is inhabited by the Pampas Indians, who have no fixed abode. 1997 J. Diamond Guns, Germs & Steel iii. 75 The Plains Indians of North America, the Araucanian Indians of southern Chile, and the Pampas Indians of Argentina fought off invading whites longer than did any other Native Americans. C2. pampas cat n. a wild cat of the pampas, Felis colocolo, having long yellow-grey fur marked with oblique brownish stripes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Felis > other types of margay1775 pampas cat1827 marbled cat1840 golden cat1871 leopard cat1884 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 170 The Pageros or Pampa Cat. 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 96 Lynxes are short-tailed Cats... There are many others, some, as the Pampas Cat (F. pajeros) grading into the next group. 1878 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 54 The Pampas Cat is a comparatively harmless beast, not preying upon poultry-yards, but confining itself to the small Mammals which abound in the South American steppes. 1991 R. M. Nowak Mammals of World (ed. 5) II. 1202/1 The pampas cat inhabits open grassland in some areas but also enters humid forests and mountainous regions. † pampas-clay n. Obsolete rare a bluish South American clay deposit (see quot. 1885).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > other clays red clayc1475 urry1669 blae1724 cat-dirt1747 iron clay1750 till1762 mulatto clay1788 oak-tree clay1794 porcelain jasper1794 porcellanite1794 Karoo ground1836 plinthite1836 papa1851 Bradford clay1858 Indianaite1868 sinopite1868 hydrobiotite1881 pampas-clay1885 byon1892 potato clay1896 bentonite1898 quick clay1901 gumbotil1916 1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. i Pampas-clay, a bluish clay occurring in beds of great thickness, and widely distributed in the pampas of South America. It is ossiferous. pampas deer n. a small deer of South American grassland, Odocoileus bezoarticus, the male of which has scent glands on its rear hooves. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Ozotoceros (pampas deer) guazuti1837 pampas deer1860 1860 M. Reid Odd People 446 A man on foot can approach much nearer to any game, than if he were mounted upon a horse. This is true..also of the large pampas deer. 1913 W. T. Hornaday Our Vanishing Wild Life xvi. 169 At present, we need not worry about the marsh deer, the pampas deer, the guemal, or the venado. 2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. The Pantanal has its own distinctive wildlife: plains alive with pampas deer; rivers heaving with piranhas; [etc.]. pampas flicker n. the campo flicker, Colaptes campestris, a black, white, and yellow woodpecker of eastern South America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Colaptes (flicker) > colaptes campestris (pampas flicker) ground woodpecker1867 pampas woodpecker1870 pampas flicker1912 1912 Ld. Brabourne & C. Chubb Birds S. Amer. I. 168 Colaptes... campestris... Pampas Flicker. Carpentero. 1957 M. H. Mitchell Observ. Birds S.E. Brazil 120 Pampas Flickers, on first sight or hearing, immediately recall to the northerner Colaptes aureus. pampas fox n. (also pampa fox) any of several small South American mammals resembling a fox or a dog, esp. the fox Dusicyon gymnocercus, of eastern and southern parts of South America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > miscellaneous types of grey fox1781 pampas fox1923 1923 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 36 55 Specimens from the high savanna of Bogotá..indicate that the pampa fox of this area is a depauperate pallid race of the lowland Cerdocyon thous. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest v. 105 He was a small, delicately made, grey pampas fox, with slender legs and enormous brush and eager brown eyes. 1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. viii. 208/2 Carnivores on the pampas are the pampa fox (Dusicyon gymnocercus), which is more like a jackal or coyote than like a British fox, and the curious long-legged maned wolf. † pampas partridge n. Obsolete the great tinamou, Tinamus major. ΚΠ 1860 M. Reid Odd People 451 Another occupation in which the Patagonian engages is the snaring of the Pampas partridge. † pampas-rice n. Obsolete white durra, Sorghum bicolor (Cernuum group), a variety of sorghum with a drooping panicle grown in parts of the southern U.S. ΚΠ 1880 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. 5/3 The Produce Exchange received yesterday from California a specimen of the so-called Pampas rice, recently brought into notice by the Kansas Board of Agriculture as a new cereal which will grow on the most arid soil. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pampas-rice, a variety of the common sorghum, Sorghum vulgare, with a drooping panicle: grown to some extent in the southern United States. † pampas sheep n. Obsolete = sense 3. ΚΠ 1895 N. Amer. Rev. July 43 Many kinds..manage to live and thrive with very little aid from their masters. Yet it is found that even the hardy Pampas sheep cannot hold its own when that aid is wanting. † pampas woodpecker n. Obsolete = pampas flicker n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Colaptes (flicker) > colaptes campestris (pampas flicker) ground woodpecker1867 pampas woodpecker1870 pampas flicker1912 1870 Proc. Zool. Soc. 705 (title) Notes on the habits of the pampas woodpecker. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1672
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