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Beaver vs Capybara - What's the difference?

beaver | capybara |

As nouns the difference between beaver and capybara

is that beaver is an aquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet while capybara is a semi-aquatic South American rodent, species: Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, the largest living rodent.

As a proper noun Beaver

is {{surname|lang=en}.

beaver

English

(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
  • A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
    • a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
  • (coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
  • The fur of the beaver.
  • Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
    • Derived terms
    * American beaver * European beaver
    Related terms
    * bank beaver * beaver away * beavered * beaver rat * busy as a beaver * eager beaver
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lower face-guard of a helmet.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
  • *:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
  • *1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
  • *:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
  • *1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
  • *:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!

    • Etymology 3

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

    (Commons) *

    capybara

    English

    (wikipedia capybara)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A semi-aquatic South American rodent, , the largest living rodent.
  • * 1876 , , The Three Lieutenants , 2010, page 430,
    • “Our fires burned well,” continued Tom, “and we roasted our young capybara to perfection; we only wanted salt and pepper, and an onion or two to make it delicious."
  • * 1914 , , Through the Brazilian Wilderness , 2004, page 53,
    • It was tenanted by the small caymans and by capybaras - the largest known rodent, a huge aquatic guinea-pig, the size of a small sheep.
  • * 2009 , The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife , page 106,
    • The largest of all the 1,729 rodent species, the semi-aquatic capybara' is extremely agile in the water, using its partly webbed toes like tiny paddles. Troops containing up to 20 animals live along riverbanks where young ' capybaras are sometimes preyed on by caimans.

    Derived terms

    * lesser capybara ()

    References