agouara

noun

agoua·​ra

variants or less commonly aguara

¦a-gwə-¦rä

plural -s

1

: any of several South American wild dogs (genus Chrysocyon)

2

: crab-eating raccoon

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Portuguese aguará, guará "maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)," borrowed from Tupi (16th–17th centuries) awara-, in awarawasú

First Known Use

1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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