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Definition of Pacas
1. paca [n] - See also: paca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacas
Literary usage of Pacas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Voyage Up the River Amazon: Including a Residence at Pará by William Henry Edwards (1847)
"... plants—Wild hogs, or Peccaries—Traps—Agoutis—pacas—Squirrels—Birds—Chapel and
singing of the blacks—Andiroba oil. ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The pacas are spotted and rather ornamentally marked ; they are found from Ecuador to
... has been thought to form a link between the pacas and the cavies, ..."
3. Exploring and Travelling Three Thousand Miles Through Brazil from Rio de by James William Wells (1887)
"More pacas slip or run down the bank, driven by the yelping dogs, who remain on
terra-finna, howling. Standing up in the canoe, out of five shots I bag two ..."
4. Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht Round the West Indies and Up the Amazon by Richard Arthur (1906)
"Among the many live animals we had collected up the river were two pacas—a sort
of small, comely-looking native pig. These two pacas were kept on deck ..."
5. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"BETWEEN the agoutis and the pacas is placed the MABA, or Patagonian Cavy, ...
The pacas inhabit Southern America, being mostly, if not entirely, ..."
6. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated: Published by Edward Turner Bennett (1830)
"The generic characters of the Agoutis, as regards the teeth, are not very
essentially different from those of the pacas. The distinctions in fact depend ..."
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