tayra

/ˈtaɪ.ɹə/

Etymology

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.)

tayra means A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

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.”