Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the giant water-cavy or capibara.
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Examples
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It's very close to its descendant, the 'carpincho', and the guys who discovered it must have thought it was an important find to name it after José Artigas, the national hero...
Mega Rodent, Part 1 James Gurney 2009
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And the largest and weirdest-looking rodent on the planet, the carpincho, which can grow to a weight of more than a hundred pounds.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
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And the largest and weirdest-looking rodent on the planet, the carpincho, which can grow to a weight of more than a hundred pounds.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
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And the largest and weirdest-looking rodent on the planet, the carpincho, which can grow to a weight of more than a hundred pounds.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
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Also, carpincho in Spanish and chigüire mostly in Venezuela.
The Fantastical Capybara: An Interview with Melanie Typaldos About Her Caplin Rous 2009
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This luxury product, known in international commerce as carpincho leather, fetches high prices on European markets because it is more heat resistant than most leathers and because it stretches in only one direction.
15 Agouti 1991
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In the more civilised parts of the Chaco, these animals, as well as the carpincho or water-hog, are getting quite rare, and having been so much shot at and worried they need the most careful stalking.
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There was a little excitement among the men as the boat was rowed close in under the trees, and there, half in the water, lay one of the curious animals known as a water-pig, or carpincho.
Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco George Manville Fenn 1870
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There are not only leather ones but some are made of carpincho - the tanned hide of a capybara - something I would like for a belt.
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Among endemic, rare and endangered species are found the rana trepadora isleña (Argenteophyla siemersi), ciervo de los pantanos (Blastoceros dichotomus), pajonalera pico recto (Limnornis rectirostris), lobito de río (Lontra longicaudis) and carpincho (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris).
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