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tayras

tayras is the plural of tayra.

Meaning of tayra

Noun

tayra (plural tayras)

  1. 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.2004, David Rains Wallace, Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution, page 66

Questions about tayras

What is tayras the plural of?
Tayras is the plural of tayra.

Words near tayras in the dictionary

  1. Tayopa
  2. tayos
  3. Tayouan
  4. Tayport
  5. tayra
  6. tayras
  7. Tayrona
  8. tays
  9. taysaam
  10. Taysan
  11. Tayshet

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