Agouti

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  • noun. Any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Dasyprocta, native to tropical America and having a grizzled dark brown to orange coat.
  • noun. A grizzled coat type in various animals that is produced by alternate bands of light and dark color on each hair shaft.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The American name of several species of rodent mammals of the genus Dasyprocta and family Dasyproctidæ.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.
  • noun. the color of the agouti{1}, a grayish-brown of grizzled texture; -- used especially to describe the color of the fur of a strain of mice. Also used attributively.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs.
  • noun. 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
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food
    • cross-reference
    Animals  
    Equivalent
    agouty  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gnawer  rodent  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    agoutis  armadillo  autosomal  capybara  chain  
    variant
    agouties  
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