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▪ I. ‖ guara1|ˈgwɑːrə|
[mod.L., a. 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.
1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 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. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 260/2 The Guara..It is of some Authors called an Indian Curlew. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., 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. [1796Morse Amer. Geog. 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.]
▪ II. ‖ guara2|ˈgwɑːrə|
Also aguara.
[Tupi jagoára ‘dog, ounce’ (Dias); cf. jaguar.]
A large-maned wild dog of S. America, Canis jubatus.
1884–5Stand. 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’. |