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Meaning
noun long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America
originBorrowed, 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.)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0