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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food [syn: agouti, Dasyprocta aguti]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Spanish agutí, ultimately from Tupi akutí Date: 1625 1. any of a genus (Dasyprocta) of tropical American rodents about the size of a rabbit 2. a grizzled color of fur resulting from the barring of each hair in several alternate dark and light bands

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also aguti) (pl. agoutis) any burrowing rodent of the genus Dasyprocta or Myoprocta of Central and S. America, related to the guinea-pig. Etymology: F agouti or Sp. aguti f. Tupi aguti

Webster's 1913 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.