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Meaning of "tucotuco" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TUCOTUCO

Of South American Indian origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TUCOTUCO

tucotuco  [ˌtuːkəʊˈtuːkəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUCOTUCO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tucotuco is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TUCOTUCO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tucotuco in the English dictionary

The definition of tucotuco in the dictionary is any of various colonial burrowing South American hystricomorph rodents of the genus Ctenomys, having long-clawed feet and a stocky body: family Ctenomyidae.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TUCOTUCO


arco
ˈɑːkəʊ
basuco
bəˈsuːkəʊ
Biko
ˈbiːkəʊ
chico
ˈtʃiːkəʊ
eco
ˈiːkəʊ
fico
ˈfiːkəʊ
juco
ˈdʒuːkəʊ
macaco
məˈkɑːkəʊ
mako
ˈmɑːkəʊ
mameluco
ˌmæmɪˈluːkəʊ
matico
mɑːˈtiːkəʊ
mico
ˈmiːkəʊ
Nabucco
næˈbuːkəʊ
Nikko
ˈniːkəʊ
Pachuco
pəˈtʃuːkəʊ
Pernambuco
ˌpɜːnəmˈbjuːkəʊ
picot
ˈpiːkəʊ
taco
ˈtɑːkəʊ
Turco
ˈtɜːkəʊ
yuko
ˈjuːkəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUCOTUCO

tuchun
tuck
tuck away
tuck in
tuck shop
tuck-in
tuckahoe
tuckbox
tucker
tucker-bag
tuckerbox
tuckered out
tucket
Tucson
tucutucu

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUCOTUCO

and co
banco
Blanco
Cerro de Pasco
cisco
co
coco
disco
Franco
loco
Mexico
Monaco
morocco
New Mexico
poco
Puerto Rico
San Francisco
Temuco
tobacco
un poco

Synonyms and antonyms of tucotuco in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tucotuco» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TUCOTUCO

Find out the translation of tucotuco to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tucotuco from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tucotuco» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tucotuco
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tucotuco
570 millions of speakers

English

tucotuco
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tucotuco
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tucotuco
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tucotuco
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tucotuco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tucotuco
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tucotuco
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tucotuco
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tucotuco
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tucotuco
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tucotuco
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tucotuco
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tucotuco
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tucotuco
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टीकोोटुको
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tucotuco
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tucotuco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tucotuco
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tucotuco
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tucotuco
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tucotuco
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tucotuco
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tucotuco
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tucotuco
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tucotuco

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TUCOTUCO»

The term «tucotuco» is barely ever used and occupies the 208.336 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TUCOTUCO» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tucotuco

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUCOTUCO»

Discover the use of tucotuco in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tucotuco and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Little Ones' Own Paradise: Over 300 Original Tales in ...
SHE tucotuco is a second cousin to the rat which ate up all Mops' (the pony) corn in the stable, the other day. Not that they have ever met to become acquainted, for the tucotuco, or prickly rat, is a foreigner, and lives in Patagonia, where the ...
Elizabeth Day, 1885
2
Library of Natural History
Their incisor teeth are extremely broad, and their molars are rootless, with kidney -shaped crowns. On the fore-feet the curved claws are longer than the toes; while the hind-toes are furnished with a number of bristles. The species of tucotuco ...
Richard Lydekker, 1904
3
A natural history of the mammalia
The species found in Maldonado is there known by the name Tucotuco, the name being in imitation of the sound the animal emits. It is exceedingly abundant, Mr. Darwin states, in the neighbourhood of Maldonado, but is difficult to be procured,  ...
George Robert Waterhouse, 1848
4
Mammals; Birds
THE Tuco'rucos Genus Clenong's The tucotucos, of which there are several South-American species, are characterized by their adaptation for a subterranean life. They have small and almost THE MAGELLANIC TUCOTUCO. ( One-half natural ...
Richard Lydekker, 1901
5
ISIS mammalian taxonomic directory
1410027001006001 CTENOMYS FRATER TUCUTUCO 027001007001 ctenomys fulvus tucotuco 001008001 ctenomys knighti tucotuco 009001 ctenomys leucodon tucotuco 010001 ctenomys lewisi tucotuco 0u001 ctenomys magellanicus ...
U. S. Seal, Dale G. Makey, International Species Inventory System, 1974
6
Trekking in the Patagonian Andes
Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi is the only place where the rare tucotuco colonial , which was only discovered in 1983, is known to exist. A small ratlike creature, it lives in big colonies, unlike other members of this genus. On the rare occasions ...
Carolyn McCarthy, 2009
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Murray's Magazine
On the plains to the north of the river Plata in South America there is a curious burrowing animal called the tucotuco, with habits like those of our own mole, but belonging to that very different natural family of the mammalia which constitutes the ...
‎1888
8
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years ...
Although called Zandmoll by the colonists, it is a true Rodent, but lives under ground, and raises hillocks like the Mole of Europe, or the Tucotuco {Ctenomys Brasiliensis) of South America. Like that little animal, also, it renders the ground in ...
Sir Edward Belcher, Arthur Adams, 1848
9
Notes from a journal of research into the natural history of ...
Although called Zandmoll by the colonists, it is a true Rodent, but lives under ground, and raises hillocks like the Mole of Europe, or the Tucotuco (Ctenomys Brasiliensis) of South America. Like that little animal, also, it renders the ground in ...
Samarang (Ship), 1848
10
The Mammals: A Guide to the Living Species
The Tucotuco is a specialized burrower with short, powerful, long-clawed feet and a stocky (8 to 12 inch) body. Its external ears are reduced to little more than apertures, and the tail is short. Most authorities also insist that the animal exhibits  ...
Desmond Morris, 1965

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tucotuco [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tucotuco>. Apr 2024 ».
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