agouti
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/əˈɡuːti/
Definition of agouti
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, mainly native to Central and South America.
“Akin looked around to be certain he was unobserved, then went out to watch the agouti. He had not seen one close up before. Lilith claimed they looked like a cross between deer and rats.”
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noun
-
A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, mainly native to Central and South America.
“Akin looked around to be certain he was unobserved, then went out to watch the agouti. He had not seen one close up before. Lilith claimed they looked like a cross between deer and rats.”
- A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French agouti, from Old Tupi akuti. The name of the acouchi is probably from the same source.
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