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Agouti

noun
1.
Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food.  Synonym: Dasyprocta aguti.





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"Agouti" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cacao are the agouti, stag, squirrel, monkey, &c. The agouti produces most havoc. It often destroys in one night all ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds
... being further secured by a nut cut horizontally through the middle, with a hole in the end forming a ring, which, should it strike the ground, would prevent it from splitting. About two feet from the mouth-end he fastened a couple of the teeth of the agouti to ...
— The Wanderers - Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco • W.H.G. Kingston


Words linked to "Agouti" :   genus Dasyprocta, rodent, gnawer, Dasyprocta, Dasyprocta aguti


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