degu

From the Mapudungun dewü, via South American Spanish degú.

degu (plural degus)

1. Any species of the genus Octodon, especially Octodon degus, a small, caviomorph rodent native to Chile.
   • 2008, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Secret of the Singing Mice... and More!, page 37:

     Along the trails, degus leave mini-urine puddles marking the trail.

   • 2011, Elsie Jones-Smith, Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student, page 80:

     Dr. Braun used used laboratory rats called degus or brush-tail rats (Octodon degus), a species of rodent closely related to guinea pigs. […] In their natural environment, degu infants are raised jointly by their father and mother and are extremely communicative, using whistling tones to carry on intensive “conversations.”

   • 2011, Katherine Quesenberry, James W. Carpenter, Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, unnumbered page:

     Degus, or trumpet-tail rats, come from Chile. Taxonomically, they are in the same diverse order as guinea pigs and chinchillas. Degus have been used as laboratory animals for 20 years and in recent years have become popular as pets in the United States and Europe.

• (Octodon degus): brush-tailed rat, trumpet-tailed rat

• Bridges' degu (Octodon bridgesi)
• common degu' (Octodon degus)
• Mocha Island degu (Octodon pacificus)
• moon-toothed degu (Octodon lunatus)
• mountain degu
• Pacific degu (Octodon pacificus)

• octodont

• “degu”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• Gude

From Spanish degú, from Mapudungun dewü.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɡu/, [ˈde̞ɡu]
• Rhymes: -eɡu
• Syllabification^(key): de‧gu

degu

1. octodontid (rodent of the Octodontidae family)
2. degu (any species of the genus Octodon)
3. common degu (Octodon degus)

• (octodontid): torvimyyrä
• (Octodon degu): torvimyyrä

• andiendegu (“Octodon bridgesi, Bridge’s degu”)
• andienkividegu (“Aconaemys fuscus, Chilean rock rat”)
• chilendegu (“Octodon lunatus, moon-toothed degu”)
• kividegu (“any species of the genus Aconaemys, rock rat”)
• tasankokividegu (“Aconaemys sagei, Sage’s rock rat”)

• “degu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /deˈɡu/^*
• Rhymes: -u

degu m (invariable)

1. degu

degu

1. first-person singular present/past indicative of degt

• IPA^(key): [dʲɛˈɡʊ]

degù

1. first-person singular present of degti