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leopard

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leopard \Leop"ard\ (l[e^]p"[~e]rd), n. [OE. leopart, leparde, lebarde, libbard, OF. leopard, liepart, F. l['e]opard, L. leopardus, fr. Gr. leo`pardos; le`wn lion + pa`rdos pard. See Lion , and Pard .] (Zo["o]l.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Panthera pardus'', a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (context: in contrast to leopardess). 2 (context: inexact) The clouded leopard (''Neofelis nebulosa''), a similar-looking large ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The leopard ( Panthera pardus ) is one of the five " big cats " in the genus Panthera . It is a member of the family Felidae with a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia . Fossil records found in Italy suggest that in the Pleistocene it ranged ...

Usage examples of leopard.

He headed for the fountain to wait for his grandson, treading like a snow leopard across the Himalayas, knowing a mate must be somewhere up there among the alpenglow and mist.

More carpets covered the floors, and in a curtained recess, a large angareb bed was spread with golden leopard skins dappled with black rosettes.

An Arcadian Niphetos Pardalia, or snow leopard, the woman had a glint in her eye that reminded everyone there that women were far more bloodthirsty than the men.

Turquoise were the most numerous, but other stones included rose quartz, red jasper, leopard jasper, amethyst, lapis lazuli, opal, bloodstone, tiger-eye, azurite, malachite, and more beyond reckoning.

Gee whiz, you have to think quick at school exams, but cracky, leopards are worse than school principals, I should hope.

Greens had had a lot of influence back in the 2030s, enough to override local protests and have bears, wolves, dholes, leopards and tigers and whatnot dropped into remote areas.

Just as the leopard cannot change his spots, so could I not overnight and by the simple pronouncing of words and the exchanging of rings before witnesses convert myself to a circumspect and drearily puritanical sobersides.

Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunist land crab, it will hang you and catch your jissom like a scrutable dog, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.

After them the Humarei, flagless, and marching to drum-music, their King with his leopard walking before them.

There were flightless geese instead of rabbits, little songbirds instead of mice, gigantic eagles instead of leopards, and seventeen different species of moa, giant flightless birds, eerie avian parallels to deer.

Leopard being close-hauled to weather Fogo, even those muted notes were borne away by the wind.

The leak gained on them as the oakum of the first successful fothering worked through the leak, and the passing of a new sail was a slow, exhausting business that had little evident result: the Leopard drove eastward and a little south under small sail in a rising wind, pumping day and night.

Naya Gaon crosses the road diagonally, and on this track we saw the fresh pug marks of a big male leopard.

Graf is herself a conjoined species, collectively possessing degrees in geochemistry, biology, and neuromuscular therapy, as well as owning two dogs, four snakes, six cats, and a breeding leopard gecko colony, whose population fluctuates seasonally between twelve and forty animals.

I have not time just now to attempt to trace the species of the leopard which formerly graced the arms of the English kings, but I should not be surprised if it were the guepard or chita.