Guana

Meanings

1. 1
   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.

2. 2
   name

   either of two Arawakan languages associated with Guana peoples in Brazil and Paraguay

   The archive includes a short vocabulary recorded in Guana.

3. 3
   noun

   dated, lowercase: a shortened form of iguana

   The sailor's diary calls the large green lizard a guana.

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.

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