Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The reddish-brown color phase of the jaguarundi.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of wild cat, Felis eyra, ranging from Texas southward into South America, of a uniform reddish color, with an extremely long, slender body, long tail, and short limbs, especially the fore legs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs.

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  • noun A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish eirá, a kind of fox, from Guaraní eirara.]

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Native South American name.

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  • "A kind of wild cat, Felis eyra, ranging from Texas southward into South America, of a uniform reddish color..." - American Heritage Dictionary.

    The term refers to a common name of the reddish-brown color phase of the jaguarundi, and to that color itself.

    March 22, 2011