A Cuban hutia, esp. Capromys pilorides. Also pilori-rat.

a Cuban hutia, Capromys pilorides.

Any of various other small mammals with a musky smell, such as a musk shrew or a desman.

A South American aquatic rodent (Myopotamus coypus), nearly equal to the beaver in size; called also coypu rat.

The skin or fur of the coypu. Also: the animal itself.

Any of several rodents of the family Capromyidæ, including Capromys and closely related genera, native to Cuba, the West Indies, and northern…

a hutia (genus Capromys).

an arboreal rodent, as those of the West Indian genera Capromys and Plagiodon.