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capybara

/kap-uh-bahr-uh/US // ˌkæp əˈbɑr ə //UK // (ˌkæpɪˈbɑːrə) //

水豚,水豚草,水豚鱼,海豚

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.

Examples

  • Though it may have never seen this before, it can mix and match what it knows of paintings, capybaras, fields, and sunrises to dream up dozens of examples.

  • You can prompt it, for example, to produce “a painting of a capybara sitting in a field at sunrise.”

  • Venezuela: The country to the south takes us in a pretty weird direction by offering the capybara.

  • We sat down to supper, Franz eager to partake of his capybara.

  • A little game, a capybara, and a bird like a crow with a brown rump, were hung on the screen.

  • The bony palate between the grinding teeth is sometimes as in the Hares very short, sometimes as in the Capybara very long.

  • Like its big relation, the capybara, it always takes up its abode in the neighbourhood of water.

  • The squeaking was still going on within, so we knew that Dame Capybara and her family were at home.