agouti
noun
any of several short-haired, short-eared, rabbitlike rodents of the genus Dasyprocta, of South and Central America and the West Indies, destructive to sugarcane.
agouties
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pluralof agouti.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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How he envied the poultry, the agouties, and the sheep, who cheerfully quenched their thirst without the addition of such saccharine or alcoholic mixtures to their water from the stream!
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne
It was only the goats and sheep and agouties.
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne
They eyed, the professor especially, the sheep, agouties, and fowls which went and came round Will Tree.
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne
Game of all sorts in consequence abounded at the Chimneys, capybaras, pigeons, agouties, grouse, etc.
From The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Notwithstanding the bad weather, the settlers renewed their stores of different things, stone-pine almonds, rhizomes, syrup from the maple-tree, for the vegetable part; rabbits from the warren, agouties, and kangaroos for the animal part.
From The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
