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kuichua en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (archaic) The margay.
   • 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; […] 1869, John Edward Gray, Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the British Museum, page 26:
   • 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. 1870, J. G. Wood, Wood's Animal Kingdom, page 188: