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Etymology
[edit]From Old Tupi marakaîá via Spanish margay, Portuguese maracajá.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]margay (plural margays)
- Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America.
- Synonyms: kuichua, tree ocelot, tiger cat
- 2002, Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist, Wild Cats of the World, University of Chicago Press, page 137,
- In Costa Rica margays were once widely distributed in dense forest from the coastal lowlands to about 3,000 meters elevation in the interior mountains.
- 2008, Kirk Smock, Guyana, Bradt Travel Guides, page 32,
- Margays are small and slim spotted cats (60cm/40cm/3.5kg) with long bushy tails and long legs with large feet.
- Typically found in mature forest, margays are nocturnal and arboreal, hunting mostly in trees (they can rotate their hind legs and descend a tree head first).
- 2010, David Whyte Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, Kristin Nowell, Chapter 1: Dramatis personae: an introduction to the wild felids, David Whyte Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge (editors), The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids, Oxford University Press, page 38,
- The margay has broad feet, flexible ankles, and a long tail, all adaptations for arboreality (Nowell and Jackson 1996). In captivity, the margay is well known for its climbing and jumping acrobatics.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]Leopardus wiedii
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Further reading
[edit]Leopardus wiedii on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Leopardus wiedii on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- "Margay" on IUCN Red List
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]margay m (plural margays)
Further reading
[edit]- “margay”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from or related to Portuguese maracajá, ultimately from Old Tupi marakaîá. Doublet of maracayá.
Noun
[edit]margay m (plural margays or margayes)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “margay”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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