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hutia|huːˈtiːə|
Also houtia, jutia, utia.
[a. Sp. hutía, f. Taino huti, cuti.]
Any of several rodents of the family Capromyidæ, including Capromys and closely related genera, native to Cuba, the West Indies, and northern South America.
[1793B. Edwards Hist. Brit. Colonies W. Indies I. i. 90 The agouti is sometimes called couti, and coati. It was corrupted into uti and utia, by the Spaniards.] 1834H. McMurtrie tr. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 84 The Houtias have four molars. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 509/2 According to Bomare, the Utias is a species of rabbit of the size of a rat, which inhabits the West Indies. 1851P. H. Gosse Naturalist's Sojourn Jamaica 468 (heading) The Utia, or Indian Cony. Ibid. 469 A few years ago M. Fournier brought to Europe specimens of the animal which still bears in Cuba the name of Utia. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 680/2 The only peculiar quadruped known in the island [of Cuba] is the jutia or hutia. 1939Geogr. Jrnl. XCIII. 275 There exists on this island [sc. Swan Island] the hutia or capromys, a curious guinea-pig-like rodent of which only some four species are known. 1971L. H. Matthews Life of Mammals II. vii. 213 The family Capromyidae contains the coypu and the hutias, the latter name spelt ‘jutia’ in Spanish. Ibid. 214 Hutias are stout bodied, short limbed, rat-like rodents. |