guyanosa

plural guyanosas

1. alternativeAlternative form of guyascutus.

   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.

   1849, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine

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   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.

   1853, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 7, page 709

   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.

   1951, Mitford McLeod Mathews, A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles

   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.

   1982 -, Richard Mercer Dorson, Man and Beast in American Comic Legend, page 25