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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 993 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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OCTODON , the generic name for a small See also:

South See also:

AMERICAN

American rodent mammal (Octodon degus) locally known as the degu . It is the type of the See also:

FAMILY

family Octodontidae, the members of which —collectively termed octodonts—are exclusively Central and South American . Several of them, such as Echinomys and Loncheres, are See also:

RAT (a word common to Teut. and Rom. languages; probably first adopted in Teut.; the ultimate origin is not known; Skeat suggests the root rad-, to scratch; cf. Ger. Ratte, Dan. rotte, Fr. rat, &c.)

rat-like creatures with spiny or bristly See also:

FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur (see See also:

RODENTIA

RODENTIA) .

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