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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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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
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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