agouti

English Thesaurus

1. agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gnawer, rodent,
definition	:	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	dasyprocta, genus dasyprocta,
definition	:	type genus of the Dasyproctidae: agoutis (noun.animal)