Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cabiai, carpincho, or gigantic water-cavy of South America, Hydrochærus capibara, the largest living quadruped belonging to the hystricomorphic series of the simplicident rodents; the type and only known representative of the family Hydrochæridæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) See capybara.

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  • noun Dated form of capybara.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent

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  • We now made the acquaintance of the _capivara_ (_Hydrochoerus capibara_),

    Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

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