kuichua
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Etymology
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Noun
kuichua
- (archaic) The margay.
- 1869, John Edward Gray, Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the British Museum (page 26)
- They, no doubt, are very similar, and we know that the Spotted Cats, as the Leopard, the Jaguar, the Ocelots, and the Kuichua of Brazil are very variable; […]
- 1870, J. G. Wood, Wood's Animal Kingdom (page 188)
- The face of the Kuichua is very short, and the neck long and thin. The very appropriate name, Macrourus, is a compound of two Greek works[sic], signifying long-tailed.
- 1869, John Edward Gray, Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the British Museum (page 26)
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