- agouti
- noun /əˈɡuːti/b) A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation
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agouti — [ aguti ] n. m. • 1758; agoutin 1556; var. acouti, acoutyXVII e; tupi guarani acouti ♦ Petit mammifère (rongeurs) des Antilles et de l Amérique du Sud, de la taille d un lièvre. ● agouti nom masculin (mot guarani) Petit rongeur d Amérique latine … Encyclopédie Universelle
Agouti — refers to a number of species of rodents as well as a number of genes affecting coat coloration in several different animals.*When referring to a rodent, agouti can mean: ** The common agoutis (genus Dasyprocta ) are those popularly called… … Wikipedia
Agouti — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda ? Pacas Rango fósil: Recent Agouti paca … Wikipedia Español
Agouti — A*gou ti, Agouty A*gou ty ([.a]*g[=oo] t[i^]), n. [F. agouti, acouti, Sp. aguti, fr. native name.] (Zo[ o]l.) 1. A rodent of the genus {Dasyprocta}, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
agouti — agouti. См. агути. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
agouti — n. pl. agouties [ə go͞ot′ē] n. agoutis [Fr (? via Sp agutí) < Tupí Guaraní akutí] a rabbit sized, nocturnal rodent (family Dasyproctidae) with grizzled fur, found in tropical America: also sp. agouty n. agouties … English World dictionary
Agouti — Pour l’article homonyme, voir gène agouti. Nom vernaculaire ou nom normalisé ambigu : Le terme « Agouti » s applique en français à plusieurs taxons distincts … Wikipédia en Français
Agouti — Wildfarbenes Kaninchen Schwarze Ratte … Deutsch Wikipedia
agouti — Wildfarbenes Kaninchen Agouti Farbratte … Deutsch Wikipedia
agouti — /euh gooh tee/, n., pl. agoutis, agouties. 1. any of several short haired, short eared, rabbitlike rodents of the genus Dasyprocta, of South and Central America and the West Indies, destructive to sugar cane. 2. an irregularly barred pattern of… … Universalium
agouti — Central American rodent that has given its name to a grey flecked coat coloration in mice caused by alternate light and dark bands on individual hairs. The gene codes for a 131 residue secreted protein that regulates phaeomelanin synthesis in… … Dictionary of molecular biology
