guyanosa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "There were two moose, three black bears, one 'woolly horse,' some twenty deer, seven panthers, two foxes, four gaunt wolves, one 'prock', one 'guyanosa,' and a young Penobscot ice-breaker."
- "Before proceeding to exhibit the animals, the lecturer dwelt at some length upon the characteristics of each; and describing, especially, the ravenous nature of the Guyanosa, and his enormous strength."
- "The story of the guyanosa or guyascutus (see Knickerbocker Mag. XXVIII. 36-38 and Harper's Mag. VII. 708-709) tells of somesharpers who sold tickets to the public to see this strange and savage animal."
- "In Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1853, from the Editor's Drawer, appeared a particularly impressive version that joined the Guyanosa with another favorite American myth-beast, here called the Prock."