agouti

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From French agouti or Spanish agutí, both from Old Tupi akuti and other Tupian languages. The name of the acouchi is probably from the same source.

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡuːti/

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• Rhymes: -uːti

agouti (plural agoutis)

1. A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, of the genus Dasyprocta.
   • 1988, Octavia E. Butler, “Part II, Chapter 6”, in Adulthood Rites, page 99:

     Akin looked around to be certain he was unobserved, tthen 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.

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.

• Appendix:Animals

Borrowed from Old Tupi akuti.

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡu.ti/

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agouti m (plural agoutis)

1. agouti (rodent)

• “agouti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.