Identifier: centurydictionary01whit Title:
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. Year:
1897 (
1890s) Authors:
Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913 Subjects:
English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher:
New York : The Century Co. Contributing Library:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: (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 llv.-toes, and the longclaws are curved and evidently adaptedfor scraping in the 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 Solenodon.agouti (a-giiti), n. [