Definition of Capybaras

1. Noun. (plural of capybara) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Capybaras

1. capybara [n] - See also: capybara

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capybaras

caput radiale
caput radii
caput stapedis
caput succedaneum
caput superficiale musculi flexoris pollicis brevis
caput tali
caput transversum
caput transversum musculi adductoris hallucis
caput transversum musculi adductoris pollicis
caput ulnae
caput ulnare
caput ulnare musculi flexoris carpi ulnaris
caput ulnare musculi pronatoris teretis
caput zygomaticum quadrati labii superioris
capybara
capybaras (current term)
caquelon
caquelons
car-body van
car-body vans
car-booter
car-chase
car-ferry
car-hop
car-house
car-jack
car-jacking
car-mechanic
car-pooler

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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