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