VISCACHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viscacha mean? 

• VISCACHA (noun)
  The noun VISCACHA has 1 sense:

1. gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas

  Familiarity information: VISCACHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISCACHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chinchillon; Lagostomus maximus; viscacha

Hypernyms ("viscacha" is a kind of...):

gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)

Holonyms ("viscacha" is a member of...):

genus Lagostomus; Lagostomus (viscachas)

 Context examples 

Taxonomic family which includes Chinchillas and viscachas.

(Chinchillidae, NCI Thesaurus)