Crossword clues for agouti
agouti
- Rodent disease detected in a child's stomach
- Burrowing rodent - IOU tag
- Burrowing rodent — IOU tag (anag)
- August the 1st, French government brought in American guinea pig
- South American rodent
- Rabbit-sized rodent found in rainforests
- S. A. rodent
- Rainforest rodent
- Guinea pig cousin
- South-of-the-border rodent
- SA rodent
- Rodent destructive to sugar cane
- Relative of a guinea pig
- Guinea pig relative
- Short-eared rodent
- Rodent that's into sugar cane
- Rabbit's tropical lookalike
- Rabbit-like rodent
- Central American rodent that resembles a guinea pig
- Rodent that menaces sugar cane
- Cousin of a guinea pig
- Rabbitlike rodent of S.A
- Rodent that makes an affectionate pet
- Valued as food
- Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central and South America and West Indies
- Tropical rodent
- Rabbitlike rodent of S.A.
- S.A. rodent
- Rabbitlike S.A. rodent
- Grizzled fur color
- Guinea pig's cousin
- A painful condition oppresses one rodent
- A condition causing swelling on one rodent
- Rodent secreted in bag when taken on outing?
- Rodent related to the guinea pig
- Rodent in the open an American soldier traps
- Rodent disease contained by artificial intelligence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agouti \A*gou"ti\, Agouty \A*gou"ty\ ([.a]*g[=oo]"t[i^]), n. [F. agouti, acouti, Sp. aguti, fr. native name.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
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
n. 1 A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs. 2 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
n. agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food [syn: Dasyprocta aguti]
[also: agouties (pl)]
Wikipedia
Common agoutis are members of rodent species of the genus Dasyprocta.
Agouti may also refer to:
Agouti is a type of fur coloration in which each hair displays alternating bands of dark and light pigmentation. Agouti fur is the wild type pigmentation for many domesticated mammals.
Usage examples of "agouti".
They were maras, a sort of agouti, a little larger than their congeners of tropical countries, regular American rabbits, with long ears, jaws armed on each side with five molars, which distinguish the agouti.
Neb and Pencroft, on whom the functions of cooks naturally devolved, to the one in his quality of Negro, to the other in that of sailor, quickly prepared some broiled agouti, to which they did great justice.
The fire was lighted, and Neb and Pencroft, on whom the functions of cooks naturally devolved, to the one in his quality of Negro, to the other in that of sailor, quickly prepared some broiled agouti, to which they did great justice.
Only later would the hair develop the dark and light bars of the typical agouti coloration of an adult wolf -- if it would at all.
Nonetheless, our golden agouti vanished, stolen by someone who ate it, Father suspected.
On these same plains of La Plata, we see the agouti and bizcacha, animals having nearly the same habits as our hares and rabbits and belonging to the same order of Rodents, but they plainly display an American type of structure.
Tapirs, deer, agouti and other game fell before his arrows, until he had accumulated enough to supply the cabin for weeks to come.
Several pigs, agoutis, kangaroos, and other rodents were seen, also two or three koalas, at which Pencroft longed to have a shot.
She imagined the smell of the rain forest and the chatter of monkeys, the rustle of agoutis, the slither of anacondas, the screech of macaws.
On these same plains of La Plata, we see the agouti and bizcacha, animals having nearly the same habits as our hares and rabbits and belonging to the same order of Rodents, but they plainly display an American type of structure.
She imagined the smell of the rain forest and the chatter of monkeys, the rustle of agoutis, the slither of anacondas, the screech of macaws.
They were maras, a sort of agouti, a little larger than their congeners of tropical countries, regular American rabbits, with long ears, jaws armed on each side with five molars, which distinguish the agouti.
Only later would the hair develop the dark and light bars of the typical agouti coloration of an adult wolf -- if it would at all.
Bad as the country was, ostriches, deer, agoutis, and armadilloes, were abundant.
If he could also get an agouti or a capivara, he would have something to give the Araos when he should come upon their maloca.