agouti

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He first tore it apart, and then tasted it; and then I believe that the whole breakfast of which they partook the--agouti soup, the partridge killed by Godfrey, and the shoulder of mutton with camas and yamph roots--would hardly have sufficed to calm the hunger which devoured him The poor fellow has got a good appetite!"

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  1. noun A burrowing rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, native to tropical America and usually having brown fur streaked with gray.
  2. noun The alternation of light and dark bands of color in the fur of various animals, producing a grizzled appearance.

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  • Wild boar (agouti) appears as banding of the individual hairs and imparts an overall grizzled effect which is most often seen on wirehaired Dachshunds, but may also appear on other coats.
  • Chimeric males were crossed with B6 females, and the agouti-colored offspring were analyzed for germline transmission of the —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Tail DNA from the agouti pups was analyzed by Southern blot analysis using 5′ and 3′ probes to identify —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Oprah locked herself into a pattern of leptin resistance, elevated hypocretins, elevated ghrelin, elevated agouti-related protein, and elevated neuropeptide Y. Hunger haunted her, while thyroid hormone went on vacation. —  NaturalNews.com
  • The zoo on Thursday announced the arrival of four rock hyrax, four antelope ground squirrels, as well as the birth of a black duiker and a Brazilian agouti. —  Merced Sun-Star: front
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  1. French, from American Spanish agutí, from Guarani acutí.

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  1. from French agouti, acouti, from Spanish aguti, from aguti, acuti, the native American name.
 

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