pacarana

English

Etymology

From Old Tupi [Term?] (“false paca”).

Noun

pacarana (plural pacaranas)

1. A large, rare, slow-moving rodent, Dinomys branickii, with a thick, furry tail, native to South America, the second-largest rodent after the capybara.

Synonyms

• Count Branicki's mouse

Derived terms

• giant pacarana

Translations

rodent

• Bulgarian: пакарана f (pakarana)
• French: pacarana (fr) m
• Japanese: パカラナ (pakarana)
• Portuguese: pacarana (pt) f
• Spanish: pacarana f

See also

• pacarana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dinomys branickii on Wikispecies.Wikispecies