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Wombat vs Capybara - What's the difference?

wombat | capybara |

As nouns the difference between wombat and capybara

is that wombat is any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia while capybara is a semi-aquatic South American rodent, species: Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, the largest living rodent.

wombat

English

(wikipedia wombat)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae , mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.

    • 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