Aguará
/a.ɡwaˈɾa/noun
A South American canid, especially the maned wolf, or a fox-like animal in regional usage.
Did you know?Aguará appears in the name aguará guazú, meaning “large fox” in Guaraní, the traditional name for the maned wolf.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-Columbian
Guaraní
aguará
“Fox or fox-like wild animal”
Pre-Columbian
Guaraní
aguará guasu
“Large fox; the maned wolf”
16th–17th Century
Spanish
aguará
“A South American fox-like animal, borrowed from Guaraní”
18th–19th Century
Spanish
aguará guazú
“The maned wolf, literally “large fox””
Modern English
English
aguará
“A South American canid, chiefly used in zoological or regional contexts”
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