Definition of "agouties" [agouties]

• Plural form of agouty. (noun)

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• "Game of all sorts in consequence abounded at the Chimneys, capybaras, pigeons, agouties, grouse, etc."
• "Notwithstanding the bad weather, the settlers renewed their stores of different things, stone-pine almonds, rhizomes, syrup from the maple-tree, for the vegetable part; rabbits from the warren, agouties, and kangaroos for the animal part."
• "Here and there turkeys showed themselves with their milk and coffee-colored plumage; and peccaries, a sort of wild pig highly appreciated by lovers of venison, and agouties, which are the hares and rabbits of Central America; and tatous belonging to the order of edentates, with their scaly shells of patterns of mosaic."