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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Game of all sorts in consequence abounded at the Chimneys, capybaras, pigeons, agouties, grouse, etc.
From The Mysterious Island 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
He kept on ahead, then, lost in thought, followed by Tartlet, who by his shouts and gestures, kept together the flock of sheep, agouties, goats, and poultry.
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne
A thought flashed across the mind of Godfrey, and it was correct: it was that these hens, agouties, goats, and sheep had belonged to the Dream.
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery 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
