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Definition of Capybaras
1. capybara [n] - See also: capybara
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capybaras
Literary usage of Capybaras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Theater, Grade 2 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Evan-Moor (DST), Ginny Hall, Don Robison (2003)
"Beetles and capybaras live in the Amazon Rainforest. 2. Beetles and capybaras
like to have ... capybaras have bright, colorful fur. 9. capybaras like to eat ..."
2. Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt (1914)
"But if alarmed it would dive, for capybaras swim with equal facility on or ...
In these waters the capybaras and small caymans paid no attention to one ..."
3. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"These thickets afford a retreat for capybaras and jaguars. The fear of the latter
animal quite destroyed all pleasure in scrambling through the woods. ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"These thickets afford a retreat for capybaras and jaguars. The fear of the latter
animal quite destroyed all pleasure in scrambling through the woods. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1819)
"These enormous cats with spotted robes are so well kdi countries abounding in
capybaras, pecans, and deer, that they rarely attack ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"capybaras belong to the family Caviidae, \ix leading characteristics of ...
capybaras can be easily tamed; numbers are killed on land by jaguars and in the ..."
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