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tuco-tuco

/too-koh-too-koh/US // ˈtu koʊˈtu koʊ //UK // (ˌtuːkəʊˈtuːkəʊ) //

Tuco-Tuco

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural tu·co-tu·cos.

    • : any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Ctenomys, of South America, resembling the pocket gopher.

Examples

  • Well, for starters, cook up a little fulminated mercury to blow the windows off the office where Tuco does business.

  • Blondie ( Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) have finally found the cemetery where they know the gold is buried.

  • When eye born defective, optic nerve (Tuco Tuco) is atrophied.

  • The "Tuco-tuco," genus Ctenomys, has also short ears and tail.

  • It was a kind of large beetle, an inch in length, to which the Indians give the name of "tuco-tuco."

  • It was a kind of large drone, an inch long, and the Indians call it "tuco-tuco."

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