Gibnut

Quick meaning: Gibnut is a noun meaning (Belize) A paca (“a large rodent of the genus Cuniculus native to Central America and South America, which has dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides”).

Meaning

(Belize) A paca (“a large rodent of the genus Cuniculus native to Central America and South America, which has dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides”).

Example Sentences

One reason people come to Belize is for adventure. That's why you might want to try gibnut, bamboo chicken and cow's foot soup.

In the case of gibnut (Agouti paca), however, my memories are occupied predominately with my efforts to avoid eating this creature.

The three men had bagged an iguana and two gibnuts. Except for the spots on their backs, the gibnuts resembled twenty-pound guinea pigs.

On digging in the earth in this cave, we found the arm and leg bones of a single skeleton. [...] We also found the lower jaw of a gibnut and of another small rodent, but no other bones.

Word Forms

• gibnuts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paca, labba, cuniculid, paca-rana, tucan, cavy.

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