kuichua
English edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
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.