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AGOUTI
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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:
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)