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