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单词 tuza
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tuzan.

/ˈtuːzə/
Forms: Also tuça, ( tuca).
Etymology: < Spanish tuza, < tuçan or tozan, the name a Central American Indian language of Mexico.
A Mexican pocket-gopher or pouched rat: a rodent, formerly supposed to be a kind of mole.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Geomyidae (gopher)
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1651 F. Hernandez Nova Plant. Mexicanorum Hist. i. xxiv. 7 De Tucan, seu Talparum Indicarum quodam genere.]
1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico II. 321 Tuza, not Tucan as Count de Buffon writes, in Mexican tozan, a quadruped of Mexico of the mole kind but larger and more beautiful.
1895 C. H. Merriam in U.S. Dept. Agric., N. Amer. Fauna No. 8. 112 The tuza series [of Geomys] inhabits the South Atlantic and Gulf States south of the Savannah River and east of the Mississippi... The members of the tuza series agree among themselves and differ from the remaining forms of the genus Geomys in having longer and more naked tails, and in numerous cranial characters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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