Meanings
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noun
a member of the Guana or Guana-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco and neighboring parts of South America
The historical account describes a Guana community living west of the Paraguay River.
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name
either of two Arawakan languages associated with Guana peoples in Brazil and Paraguay
The archive includes a short vocabulary recorded in Guana.
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3
noun
dated, lowercase: a shortened form of iguana
The sailor's diary calls the large green lizard a guana.
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Etymology
The proper ethnonym Guana is distinct from lowercase guana, a shortened form of iguana. Historical sources apply Guana to Indigenous communities of the Gran Chaco and to associated Arawakan languages; modern community-specific names should be used where known.