vizcacha

[ vi-skah-chuh ]

noun

1. a variant of viscacha.

vizcacha

/ vɪsˈkætʃə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of viscacha

Example Sentences

Take, for example, the Chalchalero Vizcacha rat, whose range has been reduced to less than five square miles.

From Salon

In Chilean Patagonia, Tompkins Conservation espouses a “rewilding approach to conservation”, creating corridors for pumas and other wild cats, huemul deer, Darwin’s rhea, guanaco, Wolffsohn’s vizcacha and condor.

From The Guardian

The Minera bores its hole in the sides of the Vizcacha’s great burrow, and in this burrow within a burrow the Swallow lays its eggs and rears its young, and is the guest of the Vizcacha, and as much dependent on it as the House-Wren and the Domestic Swallow on man; so that in spring, when this species returns to the plains, it is in the villages of the Vizcachas that we see them.

From Project Gutenberg

On the grassy pampas the Miners invariably attach themselves to the Vizcacheras—as the groups of great burrows made by the large rodent, the Vizcacha, are called; for there is always a space free from grass surrounding the burrows where the birds can run freely about.

From Project Gutenberg

Though the birds inhabit the Vizcacha village all the year, they seem always to make a fresh hole to breed in every spring, the forsaken holes being given up to the small Swallow, Atticora cyanoleuca.

From Project Gutenberg