Definitions for pika

pika pi·ka

Spelling: [pahy-kuh]
IPA: /ˈpaɪ kə/

Pika is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in pika (aikp).

Definitions for pika

noun

  1. any of several small, brown to gray tailless mammals of the genus Ochotona, resembling rabbits with short ears and legs and inhabiting western mountains of North America and parts of eastern Europe and Asia.

Origin of pika

1820-30; recorded by the German naturalist P.S. Pallas (1741-1811) as the name for the animal in Evenki; compare Evenki (N Baikal dial.) pikačān a name for the tree creeper (Certhia familiari

Examples for pika

In slide rock and in bouldery moraines up as high as thirteen thousand feet, one finds the pika, or cony.

On the wildest and most desolate peaks and rock piles is found the cony or pika or "rock rabbit" as it is variously called.

American pikas all belong to the subgenus pika, which occurs also in Eurasia.

And that is how Little Chief the pika learned to make hay while the sun shone in the days of plenty.

The pikas worked a relay system and the weasel abandoned the trail when the fourth pika became the object of the chase.

Word Value for pika
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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