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Webster 1913 Edition
Yapock
Ya′pock
(?; 277)
, Noun.
[Probably from the river
Oyapok
, between French Guiana and Brazil.] (Zool.)
A South American aquatic opossum (
Chironectes variegatus
) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum
. [Written also
yapack
.]