Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A West Indian octodont rodent of the genus Capromys.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits.
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- noun Any
species of large West Indianrodents of thegenera Capromys, or Utia, resembling largerats .
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Examples
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Chicħen Ytzae heklay kabansabi Chicħen Ytzaile he Ah Cohuot Cocome tu yantah u than Dios _y_ ca noh ahau tu luksah u [210-2] ponob u banderasob, utia ca noh ahau utial conquixta _y_ adelantado _y_ yum padre clerigo tu cuch cahil xan maix u ɔa yah katun u lukzahubaob ichilob kaxahob kunal _y_ yotoch cah tu cuchteelob.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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Piutmia utia fubin: tem percipiunt: nequehic in his nil nifi magnus amor re - tem eorum animi circum eo - rum terreftrium ingeneratur, rum fepulchra et monimenta emoUiunturque ufu corporis ac cadayerum expofitionem et tanquam medicamentis col - commorantur aut adfident. liquantur.
Ploutarchou tou Chairōneōs ta Ēthika: Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, id est ... 1797
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* utia when in actual fervice, in time of war or public danger; nor
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. [from old catalog] 1795
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