AGOUTI (agouties)
Dictionary entry overview: What does agouti mean? • AGOUTI (noun)
The noun AGOUTI has 1 sense:
1. agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food
Familiarity information: AGOUTI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AGOUTI (noun)
Meaning:
Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
agouti; Dasyprocta aguti
Hypernyms ("agouti" is a kind of...):
gnawer; gnawing animal; rodent (relatively small gnawing animals 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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