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AGOUTI

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: agouties   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food

Synonyms:

agouti; Dasyprocta aguti

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("agouti" is a kind of...):

gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)

Holonyms ("agouti" is a member of...):

Dasyprocta; genus Dasyprocta (type genus of the Dasyproctidae: agoutis)

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