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Tayra

//ˈtaɪ.ɹə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail.

    "Cope considered it partly arboreal, as tayras are, and possibly omnivorous as well as herbivorous, yet he thought he saw how it could have evolved into hulking Coryphodon in a relatively short time."

  2. 2
    long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed, via Spanish tayra or Portuguese taira, from Old Tupi eîrara. (Compare Portuguese irara, Spanish irará, eirá, connected to Paraguayan Guarani eíra (“honey”), a food the animal is fond of, whence also Portuguese papa-mel, another vernacular name.)

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