Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The reddish-brown color phase of the jaguarundi.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat
Etymologies
- Native South American name. (Wiktionary)
- American Spanish eirá, a kind of fox, from Guarani eirara. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyra’.
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cats
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Here Kitty, Kitty
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
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hernesheir "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. Mar 22, 2011