Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wild cat, Felis yaguarundi of Demarest, inhabiting America from Texas to Paraguay, somewhat larger than a large domestic cat, of slender elongated form, with very long tail and very short limbs, and of a nearly uniform brownish color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A South American wild cat (
Felis jaguarondi ), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
jaguarundi .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat
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At night, I fingered my torn pillow and imagined holding the fur of some jaguarondi jumping building to smoking building, and in my dreams a witch changed me into a white cat.
Cat People #9: Tales of Manhattan David Woodruff 2011
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