margay en · NOUN
Etymology
From Old Tupi marakaîá via Spanish margay, Portuguese maracajá.
Meanings
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Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America.
Margays are small and slim spotted cats (60cm/40cm/3.5kg) with long bushy tails and long legs with large feet. Typically found in mature forest, margays are nocturnal and arboreal, hunting mostly in trees (they can rotate their hind legs and descend a tree head first).
2008, Kirk Smock, Guyana, Bradt Travel Guides, page 32:The margay has broad feet, flexible ankles, and a long tail, all adaptations for arboreality (Nowell and Jackson 1996). In captivity, the margay is well known for its climbing and jumping acrobatics.
2010, David Whyte Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, Kristin Nowell, “Chapter 1: Dramatis personae: an introduction to the wild felids”, in David Whyte Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, editors, The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids, Oxford University Press, page 38:In Costa Rica margays were once widely distributed in dense forest from the coastal lowlands to about 3,000 meters elevation in the interior mountains.
2002, Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist, Wild Cats of the World, University of Chicago Press, page 137:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| margays | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Descendants
Synonyms
kuichua · tree ocelot · tiger cat
Translations (26)
es gato tigre (Leopardus wiedii) · de Langschwanzkatze (Leopardus wiedii) · fr chat sauvage de la Nouvelle Espagne (Leopardus wiedii) · es cunaguaro (Leopardus wiedii) · nl margay (Leopardus wiedii) · pt gato-maracajá (Leopardus wiedii) · pl ocelot nadrzewny (Leopardus wiedii) · fr chat-tigre (Leopardus wiedii) · ga margae (Leopardus wiedii) · sv margaykatt (Leopardus wiedii) · pl margaj (Leopardus wiedii) · fr margay (Leopardus wiedii) · it margay (Leopardus wiedii) · es tigrillo (Leopardus wiedii) · hu margaj (Leopardus wiedii) · es caucel (Leopardus wiedii) · es maracayá (Leopardus wiedii) · ja マーゲイ (Leopardus wiedii) · ru длиннохво́стая ко́шка (Leopardus wiedii) · hu hosszúfarkú macska (Leopardus wiedii) · eo margajo (Leopardus wiedii) · cmn 長尾虎貓 /长尾虎猫 (Leopardus wiedii) · mt margaj (Leopardus wiedii) · es margay (Leopardus wiedii) · el μάργκεϊ (Leopardus wiedii) · ms margay (Leopardus wiedii)