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Viscacha vs Genet - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between viscacha and genet

is that viscacha is any of the several south american rodents, native to the andes, of the genera lagidium'' and ''lagostomus , within family chinchillidae while genet is broom (shrub).

viscacha

English

(wikipedia viscacha)

Alternative forms

* vizcacha

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes, of the genera Lagidium'' and ''Lagostomus , within family Chinchillidae.
  • * 1836 , Chinchillidae'', entry in Charles Frederick Partington, ''The British Cyclopæedia of Natural History , page 27,
    • From the tenderness of its covering, it is not, though a stronger and larger animal, so able to bear the severity of winter in the Andes as the Chinchilla, though it is not so decidedly an animal of the plains as the viscacha of Paraguay.
  • * 1837 , Conrad Malte-Brun, Jean-Jacques-Nicolas Huot, A System of Universal Geography , page 316,
    • The guanaco, the viscacha , and the hare of the Pampas, are found in Patagonia.
  • * 2003 , Elaine Egbert, Nature in a Nutshell: Daily Devotions for Juniors , page 236,
    • A guard viscacha' watches for predators. This guard sounds an alarm if it spots danger. Then the quick-moving ' viscachas scramble into their dens in the rocks or burrow into the ground.
  • * 2013 , James G. Sanderson, Patrick Watson, Small Wild Cats: The Animal Answer Guide , unnumbered page,
    • The Andean cat's prey is small mammals such as the mountain viscacha', which look very much like a common North American cottontail rabbit. Mountain ' viscachas eat coarse spikegrass that is found near small mountain streams.

    Derived terms

    * ) * ) * ) * ) * ) * viscacha rat

    genet

    English

    (Genetta)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) genette, (etyl) genette, (jenette) et al., of uncertain origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.
  • The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it.

    • Etymology 2

    Coined in the 20th century from (gene).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets

    • Etymology 3

    See jennet

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

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