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panther
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis [syn: jaguar , Panthera onca , Felis onca ] a leopard in the black color phase large American feline resembling a lion [syn: ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He solved the Chelsi problem by having her noisily eaten by a Stygian panther in the lab menagerie. ▪ He was cat-cautious, lithe as a panther , and thoroughly at home. ▪ He would move, she guessed, with the supple grace of a ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Panther is a creature out of ancient legend that resembles a big cat with a multicoloured hide. Under medieval belief, after feasting, the panther will sleep in a cave for a total of three days. After this period ends, the panther roars, in the process ...
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 panther.
The pride of Corinth, again rising from her ruins with the honors of a Roman colony, exacted a tribute from the adjacent republics, for the purpose of defraying the games of the Isthmus, which were celebrated in the amphitheatre with the hunting of bears and panthers.
Yet the drow and his panther were in there, day after day, setting their fires in the outer chamber while Bluster snored contentedly in the inner.
Only the margraviate of Austra and Olsatia displayed a panther as part of its sigil.
Though he would not have known how to put this thought into words, there were times when Boone Markland felt like a rough old lion who had whelped a pride of black panthers.
My kind publishers announced, some time ago, a table of contents, which included chapters on jay and fish-hawk, panther, and musquash, and a certain savage old bull moose that once took up his abode too near my camp for comfort.
Pushing off, with an exhuberant cry, Panthera effortlessly kicked Outher in the throat, kicked him senseless back into the room, and soared backwards through the air, to land on all fours beside me.
Unlike the stocky, heavyset males of Perv, she is whipcord-lean and moves like a panther.
When Lilly came to, she was on the ground beside the boulder with the super-cool petroglyph of a panther.
A few moments later, the great panther was running off through the planar tunnel to its astral home, and Drizzt moved along the trails leading to the human village and his answers.
The elf snarled like an angry panther and whirled away again, heading for the door.
Quick as a panther, Alleyne sprang in with a thrust, but Tranter, who was as active as he was strong, had already recovered himself and turned it aside with a movement of his heavy blade.
Even unclothed, he looked as sleek and as dangerous as a crouching panther.
The female in her that was just entering womanhood was all too aware of the fact that there were three unmated panthers at the hotel.
Black Panthers and worn her hair in an Afro that, since she was light and her hair waved softly, was a pain in the ass to maintain.
His first need, he realized, was for weapons of offence and defence, for his encounter with the apes, and the distant notes of the savage voices of Numa the lion, and Sheeta, the panther, warned him that his was to be no life of indolent ease and security.