. The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world ... (a-go-ara), n. [Native name in SouthAmerica.] A species of racoon, Proojon can-crivorus, about the size of a fox. it is a native ofthe warmer parts of America, and catcall kinds of crus-taceans and mollusks, marine and terrestrial; from thishal)it it is also called the erah-eating racoon. agoumenos (a-gome-nos), n. Same as hegu-menos. 116 family Slolenodontida;. it is ao puzzling to natural-ists tluit it has received the name of S. paradoxus. It bitsthe fur,
. The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world ... (a-go-ara), n. [Native name in SouthAmerica.] A species of racoon, Proojon can-crivorus, about the size of a fox. it is a native ofthe warmer parts of America, and catcall kinds of crus-taceans and mollusks, marine and terrestrial; from thishal)it it is also called the erah-eating racoon. agoumenos (a-gome-nos), n. Same as hegu-menos. 116 family Slolenodontida;. it is ao puzzling to natural-ists tluit it has received the name of S. paradoxus. It bitsthe fur, ears, and tail of the opossum, but the teetll andelongated nose of the shrew. Its feet terminate in , and the longclaws are curved and evidently adaptedfor scraping in tlie earth. The dentition is unic|ue, thegroovingof the second incisorof the lower jaw distinguish-ing this genus from all others whose dental system isknown. It is of the size of a rat, and not unlike one ingeneral appearance. See alniiqul and (a-giiti), n. [<F. agouti, acouti, < , < agitti, acuti, the native Amer. name.].
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