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Central American prowler
Answer for the clue "Central American prowler ", 6 letters:
ocelot
Alternative clues for the word ocelot
Word definitions for ocelot in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"large wildcat of Central and South America," 1775, from French ocelot , a word formed by French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), from Nahuatl (Aztecan) ocelotl "jaguar" (in full tlalocelotl , a compound formed with tlalli ...
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oCeLoT aka Aaron Peacock (born 1974 in San Francisco , California ) is a record producer and DJ . He has been producing music since 1993 (featuring releases on Journees Music 1995 "Blue Spotted Frog" ep as Aaron Peacock) and has released material on Dropout ...
Usage examples of ocelot.
If only because the bandicoot is dying - and the glossy ocelot is expecting, any day now.
Some courtiers carried their pet cats on their arms: highly bred miniature lynxes, caracals, and ocelots, trained to sit demurely at plateside and daintily share the feast.
Claw of the Conciliator, and that you showed him a small black claw, such as might perhaps have come from an ocelot or a caracara, and that you told him you have raised many from the dead by means of it.
The variety of animals was impressive: ocelot, toucan, marmoset, tamarin, anteater, even snakes and lizards, and oddly enough one jungle trout.
Virtually all wild and exotic cats, including ocelots, margay, serval, cougar, and bobcat, can turn vicious as they age.
Virtually all wild and exotic cats, including ocelot, margay, serval, cougar, and bobcat, can turn vicious as they age.
In those days, so long ago, a small child was still carried away every so often by a night-hunting puma, and even the beautiful ocelot and tiny margay appeared ferocious after nightfall.
While neither ocelot nor margay it was as indubitably feline as its presence was puzzling.
Her screen blossoms into panoramic visions of this Earth: penguins porpoising through Antarctic whitecaps, a whole meadow of buttercups opening to the morning sunlight on some alpine meadow, streams of light-touched motes hovering throughout the world of the tropics, mists and steam, glaciers and insects, the eyes of an ocelot, the clashing tusks of love-smitten musk oxen.
The ingredient listing came first: ocdi (maguey beer to you), ocelot blood, ferret flesh, dragon blood—I blinked a little at that one, but the Aztecans have dragons, too.
The sudden crowd caused Hrriss's two pet ocelots, Prem and Mehh, to go on guard.
It was the same feeling as the time the pretty lady came aboard the Busted Flush with her ocelot, unsnapped his chain, and told him to stay on the yellow couch.
With plucky agility, the ocelot hopped over and began rubbing its butt against the links.
Mudskippers, ocelots, tree sloths and hanumans -- we'd have all the most ridiculous animals.
Sleepiness and slothfulness keep it out of harm's way, away from the notice of jaguars, ocelots, harpy eagles and anacondas.