英语词汇“paca”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

paca

释义

paca Zool.|ˈpækə|
[a. Pg. and Sp. paca, a. Tupi paca, the native name (in Guarani, paig).
Gabriel Soares in his Noticias do Brazil 1587 spells it (in Pg.) pagua, Claude d'Abbeville Mission en Maragnan (1614) 251, has (in Fr.) pac.]
A genus (Cœlogenys) of large dasyproctid rodents, nocturnal in habit, native to Central and South America; the common species (Cœlogenys paca) is called also the spotted cavy and water hare.
[1648Marcgrave Hist. Nat. Brasil. II. 224 Paca Brasiliensibus, cuniculi etiam est species.]1657S. Clarke Geog. Descript. 179 Their Pacas are like Pigs, their flesh is pleasant.1796Stedman Surinam II. xxii. 152 The Paca, or Spotted Cavey, called in Surinam the Aquatic Hare.1871Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Sept. 517 When pacas and otters are in question, an Indian will do anything to kill them.

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