Definitions for pikas

pikas pi·ka

Spelling: [pahy-kuh]
IPA: /ˈpaɪ kə/

Pikas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in pikas (aikps).

Definitions for pikas

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 pikas

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 pikas

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.

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.

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

Word Value for pikas
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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