Definition of Hutia

1. the hog-rat [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hutia

huswifely
huswifery
huswifes
huswives
hut
hutch
hutch bladder diverticulum
hutched
hutches
hutching
hutchinson's melanotic freckle
hutchinson syndrome
hutchinsonite
hutchlike
hutchunsonian
hutia (current term)
hutias
hutlike
hutment
hutments
hutong
hutongs
huts
hutted
hutter
hutters
hutting
huttings
huttonite
hutzpa

Literary usage of Hutia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cruise of the Tomas Barrera: The Narrative of a Scientific Expedition to by John Brooks Henderson (1916)
"... hutia is a real island and not merely a mangrove swamp as all of the keys so far examined had, to our disappointment, proven to be. ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The hutia-couga is a skillful climber, and lives in dense forests. ... The smaller hutia-carabali is said to live chiefly in the tops of trees. ..."

3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"The hutia-couga is a skillful climber, and lives in dense forests. ... The smaller hutia-carabali is said to live chiefly in the tops of trees. ..."

4. In Darkest Cuba: Two Months' Service Under Gomez Along the Trocha from the by Narciso Gener Gonzales (1922)
"But he couldn't find the hutia, and returned to us, took his bearings anew, ... It was the first hutia I had seen in the woods and I would have taken it for ..."

5. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen by Julius E. Olson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"Oviedo, lib. xn., cap. i., describes the hutia. When he wrote it had become so scarce as to ... Of the four allied species described by Oviedo, the hutia, ..."

6. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"I was told that the hutia climbs into the top of some tall tree and curls up for a sun bath early in the morning. The best way to hunt them is to get out ..."

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