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‖ pampa|ˈpæmpə|
usually pl. pampas |ˈpæmpəz, -əs|.
[a. Sp. pampa (pl. pampas), ad. Peruv. bamba, a steppe, a flat: cf. the place-names Moyo-bamba, Chuqui-bamba, etc.]
1. a. The name given to the vast treeless plains of South America south of the Amazon, esp. of the Argentina and the adjacent countries. (The similar plains north of the Amazon are known as llanos.)
1704Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 46/1 There are also bred in the Pampas..many Hares. 1810Edin. Rev. XVI. 241 The pampas of Buenos Ayres are plains of the same kind [as the llanos or savannahs], but still more extensive. 1837Penny Cycl. XVIII. 210/1 In the direction due north the pampa narrows between the Parana and a ridge..called the Sierra de Cordova. 1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. II. xvii. 87 The Llanos and the Pampas..are really steppes. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 104 At length we came to a rocky ridge which bounded the vast pampa of Vilque.
b. Short for pampa sheep, reared on the pampas.
1892W. H. Hudson Nat. La Plata 108 The pampa descends to us from the first sheep introduced into La Plata about three centuries ago.
2. attrib. and Comb., as Pampas Indian; pampas-cat, a wild cat of the pampas (Felis pajeros), about three and a half feet long, having long yellow-grey fur marked with oblique brownish stripes; pampas clay, an ossiferous bluish clay, beds of which occur in many parts of the pampas; pampas deer, a small deer of South America, Blastoceros bezoarticus, the male of which has partly dichotomous antlers; pampas flicker, a black, white, and yellow woodpecker, Colaptes campestris, found in the eastern part of South America; pampas fox, one of several small mammals resembling a fox or a dog, esp. Dusicyon gymnocercus, or Azara's fox, found in eastern and southern parts of South America; pampas rice, a name given in the southern U.S. to a variety of the common Millet (Sorghum vulgare), with a drooping panicle; pampas woodpecker = pampas flicker above.
1883List Anim. Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 56 *Pampas Cat. 1887Heïlprin Geog. & Geol. Distrib. Anim. 383 Unspotted cats ranging from Paraguay to the northern boundary of Mexico, the Chilian colollo, the pampas-cat, and the lynx.
1886Cassell's Encycl. Dict., *Pampas-clay.
1860Mayne Reid Odd People 446 A man on foot can approach much nearer to any game, than if he were mounted upon a horse. This is true..also of the large *pampas deer. 1883List Anim. Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 174 Cariacus campestris F. Cuv., Pampas Deer. 1894Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. II. 388 The pampas deer is the smaller of the two species, standing about 2½ feet at the shoulder. Ibid. 389. 1972 G. K. Whitehead Deer of World iv. 63 The Pampas deer is the most elegant of all the South American deer.
1912Brabourne & Chubb Birds S. Amer. I. 168 Colaptes...campestris... *Pampas Flicker. Carpentero. 1926Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 133. 223 In habit and general appearance the pampas flicker differs little from the familiar Colaptes aureus of the eastern United States. 1957M. H. Mitchell Obs. Birds S.E. Brazil 120 Pampas Flickers, on first sight or hearing, immediately recall to the northerner Colaptes aureus.
1923Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington XXXVI. 55 Specimens from the high savanna of Bogotá..indicate that the *pampa fox of this area is a depauperate pallid race of the lowland Cerdocyon thous. 1956G. Durrell Drunken Forest v. 105 He was a small, delicately made, grey pampas fox, with slender legs and enormous brush and eager brown eyes. 1972Vogue Jan. 12/2 South American fur rugs..viscacha, guanaco, grey and pampas foxes. 1975H. J. Stains in M. W. Fox Wild Canids i. 13 The pampas fox is found in Paraguay and southeastern Brazil south through the pampas region of Argentina.
1826Sir F. B. Head Journ. Pampas 9 The south part of the Pampas is inhabited by the *Pampas Indians, who have no fixed abode.
1870Proc. Zool. Soc. 705 (title) Notes on the habits of the *pampas woodpecker. |