Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

margay

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: mar-gay
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America.

Example Sentences

"In Costa Rica margays were once widely distributed in dense forest from the coastal lowlands to about 3,000 meters elevation in the interior mountains."
"Margays are small and slim spotted cats (60cm/40cm/3.5kg) with long bushy tails and long legs with large feet. Typically found in mature forest, margays are nocturnal and arboreal, hunting mostly in trees (they can rotate their hind legs and descend a tree head first)."
"The margay has broad feet, flexible ankles, and a long tail, all adaptations for arboreality (Nowell and Jackson 1996). In captivity, the margay is well known for its climbing and jumping acrobatics."

Etymology

From Old Tupi marakaîá via Spanish margay, Portuguese maracajá.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: marakaîá, margay, maracajá

Inflected Forms

margays (plural)

Derived Forms

marlot

Synonyms

kuichua tree ocelot tiger cat margay cat felis wiedi

Rhymes With

they me way may day say all-day away play day by day today pay

Questions

What does margay mean?: Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America.
Where does margay come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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