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单词 guara
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guaran.1

/ˈɡwɑːrə/
Etymology: modern Latin, < Tupi guará.Guirá in Tupi is simply = ‘bird’, but the description in quot. 1796 relates to the guara.
An American bird, the Scarlet Ibis, Eudocimus ruber.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > member of (ibis) > eudocimus ruber (scarlet ibis)
guara1678
red curlew1731
scarlet ibis1785
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 296 The Brazilian Guara of Marggrave..is a Land and Water-fowl, of the bigness of the Spoon-bill..It feeds upon fish and flesh, water always added.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 260/2 The Guara..It is of some Authors called an Indian Curlew.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Guara, in zoology, the name of a Brasilian bird, called by Clusius, Numenius Indicus, or the Indian Curlew..It is all over of a fine gay red, only that the long~wing feathers are tipped with black at their extremities.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 745 The guira famous for often changing its colour, being first black, then ash-coloured, next white, afterwards scarlet, and last of all crimson.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

guaran.2

/ˈɡwɑːrə/
Forms: Also aguara.
Etymology: Tupi jagoára ‘dog, ounce’ (Dias); compare jaguar n.
A large-maned wild dog of South America, Canis jubatus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > other types
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hill-fox1838
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zorro1838
Falkland Island wolf1857
bush dog1883
guara1884
1884 J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 416 Largest and fiercest of the South American species is the Guara (Canis jubatus), which has a mane, and outwardly presents some resemblance to the hyena... The name of Aguara or Guara appears to be an imitation of its loud cry ‘gou-a-a’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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