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- noun Plural form of
capybara .
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Examples
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The Miami Zoo had been breached and thousands of baboons, wallabies, birds, and barrel-size aquatic rodents from South America called capybaras liberated themselves.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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I spotted a deer or two, and gawked at the huge jabirus in their nest above the road, but found myself drawn more often to the adorable, overgrown rodents known as capybaras.
NYT > Home Page By SETH KUGEL 2011
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I spotted a deer or two, and gawked at the huge jabirus in their nest above the road, but found myself drawn more often to the adorable, overgrown rodents known as capybaras.
NYT > Home Page By SETH KUGEL 2011
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In richly colored paintings Ms. Judge shows readers ages 5-12 some of what they found: nautiluses and octopuses, lizards and kiwis, "okapis from the Congo, capybaras from Colombia, and marabou storks."
When Imagination Blasts Into Orbit Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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As ranching activities expand, habitat for the aquatic rodents, capybaras, on flooded savannas and gallery forests is lost.
Marajó varzea 2008
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I know I know I know -- it's stories about the difficulties faced by National Park Rangers during the Bush administration, and what happened when Werner Herzog went to a circus, and fantastic tales of lovely maidens saving hapless knights stuck in trees, and lots of stories about unicorns learning to live in peace and harmony with vampire meerkats, and a fine group of vignettes about the happy-go-lucky lives of capybaras, and-
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I know I know I know -- it's stories about the difficulties faced by National Park Rangers during the Bush administration, and what happened when Werner Herzog went to a circus, and fantastic tales of lovely maidens saving hapless knights stuck in trees, and lots of stories about unicorns learning to live in peace and harmony with vampire meerkats, and a fine group of vignettes about the happy-go-lucky lives of capybaras, and-
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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The cattle compete for the aquatic vegetation, which is critical food source for capybaras and manatees.
Marajó varzea 2008
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I dreamt of a land of talking capybaras and their guinea pig minions.
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So I never saw the world, just the inside of this tent with these serious capybaras asking my advice on strategy and weaponry.
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