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Large American feline resembling a lion
Answer for the clue "Large American feline resembling a lion ", 6 letters:
cougar
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A mountain lion; ''Puma concolor''. 2 (context North America slang English) A woman of middle age who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, typically less than 35 years old; by implication a female “sexual predator”.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In California, cougars routinely are killed when deemed a danger to people or livestock. ▪ In former times the cougar was more abundant than at present.... ▪ Nothing was paved, little was fenced; the forests were full of cougars ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puma \Pu"ma\ (p[=u]"m[.a]), n. [Peruv. puma.] (Zo["o]l.) A large American carnivore ( Felis concolor ), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount ...
Usage examples of cougar.
The cougar cub, its nest now awash with water, scrambled from side to side on the tiny island as first one edge, then another submerged.
He shouted something at the cougar, but the creature cowered on its sinking brash, away from the platform and the grasping human arm.
Ignoring the ragged throb in her thighs, Tsia edged toward the cougar slowly.
Wren moved as gently as he could past the cougar to open the door to the hut.
She felt tension creep into her lean body, and beside her, the cougar cub stiffened.
In the gloom of the gale, where the light from the cabin flashed in his eyes and blinded him to the meres, while his nose made him choke with their scents, the cougar sought the only safety he could see: Tsia.
She could see, not just feel through her gate, the cougar that crouched before her.
Wren had to tear her arm from the cougar and thrust it through the strap of her gear bag.
The cougar yowled, and Tsia did not notice that the sound was in her brain, not her ears.
His forelegs barely touched the rim of the hatch, and Wren did not even have time to shift as the cougar whipped on by.
The cougar growled, and the sound amplified the memories until it seemed as if a thousand voices flooded into her mind and deafened her.
In her head, the cougar padded closer, and she felt her hands clench tightly.
In her head, the cougar paced and clawed at her skull until she snapped at him to leave her alone.
If he saw the faint outline of the cougar pressed against the stone, he said nothing.
He was like a cougar just before it pounced, his voice low while his biofield crouched to attack.