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Definition of Dasyprocta aguti
1. Noun. Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food.
Generic synonyms: Gnawer, Rodent
Group relationships: Dasyprocta, Genus Dasyprocta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dasyprocta Aguti
Literary usage of Dasyprocta aguti
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"Dasyprocta aguti—Illig: (Mus Aguti—Lin: Agouti—Buff: ... Dasyprocta aguti. Var.
558. Skull of the Aguti, or Java Hare. Hunterian. Hunterian. ..."
2. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1848)
"... but the metatarsal bones of these toes are likewise absent. Dasyprocta aguti.
The Yellow-rumped Aguti. Mus Aguti. L:NN., Syst. Nat. 12, ip 81. ..."
3. The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse: In A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild by Hans Staden, Albert Tootal, Richard Francis Burton (1874)
"... must not be confounded with the Cot1'a (Cavia Aguti Linn.; Dasyprocta aguti
Ilig., or Dasyprocta ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Dasyprocta aguti. x -fa. the Fox. " If chased he will run along the shallows of
a creek to hide his scent from the dogs, or swim over and back again several ..."
5. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain), New Shakspere Society (London, England), William Shakespeare (1901)
"... (Dasyprocta aguti) in a pen and the attempts of a jaguar to get at it.
The players form a ring, their faces inwards, their arms round each other's necks ..."
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