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单词 pichiciego
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pichiciegon.

Brit. /ˌpɪtʃᵻˈsjeɪɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˌpitʃisiˈeɪɡoʊ/
Forms: 1800s– pichiciago, 1800s– pichiciego.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pichiciego.
Etymology: < South American Spanish pichiciego < Spanish pichi pichi n. + Spanish ciego blind (1129; < classical Latin caecus blind: see caecum n.).
Either of two very small armadillos constituting the genus Chlamyphorus; = fairy armadillo n. at fairy n. and adj. Compounds 4.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Edentata > [noun] > family Dasypodidae (armadillo) > other types of
American crocodile1678
kabassou1774
pichiciego1825
chlamydophore1836
kabalassou1884
1825 R. Harlan in Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N.Y. 235 The animal is a native of Mendoza, and in the Indian language is named Pichiciago.
1876 Encycl. Brit. Chlamydophore..found at Mendoza on the Eastern slope of the Cordilleras, where it is known as the Pichiciago.
1891 Amer. Naturalist 25 294 The recent arrival of a mounted skeleton of the Pichiciego, C. truncatus, at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, in Cambridge.
1940 P. R. Cutright Great Naturalists explore S. Amer. 59 The remaining species range down the scale to the little pichiciago..that is scarcely six inches in length from the end of its snout to the tip of its tail.
1991 R. M. Nowak Walker's Mammals of World (ed. 5) I. 533/2 Pichiciegos inhabit dry grasslands as well as sandy plains with thornbushes and cacti.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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