tayra

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tayra

/ˈtaɪ.ɹə/

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Borrowed, via Spanish tayra or Portuguese taira, from Old Tupi eîrara. (Compare Portuguese irara, Spanish irará, eirá, connected to Paraguayan Guarani eíra (“honey”), a food the animal is fond of, whence also Portuguese papa-mel, another vernacular name.)

noun tayras · taira

A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail. Cope considered it partly arboreal, as tayras are, and possibly omnivorous as well as herbivorous, yet he thought he saw how it could have evolved into hulking Coryphodon in a relatively short time.

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noun Eira barbara

Español	tayra, irará, viejo de monte, humayro
한국어	타이라 taira
日本語	タイラ taira
中文	狐鼬 húyòu
Português	irara

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@misc{tayra_2026,
  title = {tayra},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tayra},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}