Crossword clues for leopard
leopard
- Jungle beast
- Large cat
- Large feline
- Jungle cat
- Spotted stalker
- Spotted great cat
- Spotted carnivor
- Panther's kin
- One spotted at the zoo
- Kipling story's "sandy" subject
- Jaguar's kin
- It's spotted in the jungle
- It's spotted in Africa?
- It's spotted in Africa
- Inspiration for a spotted print
- Impala predator
- Eye-catching print pattern
- Creature that stores its kill in trees
- Animal — per load (anag)
- Rare large cat
- According to Isaiah, it "shall lie down with the kid"
- It's spotted in a zoo
- Fast cat
- Feline stalker
- Tiger's successor, computerwise
- One spotted in tall grass
- Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots
- Lafayette athlete
- Ferocious cat
- Ferocious beast
- Spotted cat
- Old man entertained by frisky older 17
- Horror writer about to punch fat cat
- Poet in turn welcomed by fat cat
- Animal - per load
- Big cat with spots
- Big cat
- Spotted wildcat
- Endangered cat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ( Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther ( Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard.
Hunting leopard. See Cheetah.
Leopard cat (Zo["o]l.) any one of several species or varieties of small, spotted cats found in Africa, Southern Asia, and the East Indies; esp., Felis Bengalensis.
Leopard marmot. See Gopher, 2.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old French lebard, leupart (12c., Modern French léopard), from Late Latin leopardus, literally "lion-pard," from Greek leopardos, from leon "lion" + pardos "male panther," which generally is said to be connected to Sanskrit prdakuh "panther, tiger." The animal was thought in ancient times to be a hybrid of these two species.
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 wild cat native to Asia. 3 (context: inexact) The snow leopard (''Uncia uncia''), a similar-looking large wild cat native to Asia. 4 (context heraldiccharge English) A lion passant guardant.
WordNet
n. the pelt of a leopard
large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots [syn: Panthera pardus]
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 as far as Europe and Japan.
Compared to other members of Felidae, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull. It is similar in appearance to the jaguar, but is smaller and more lightly built. Its fur is marked with rosettes similar to those of the jaguar, but the leopard's rosettes are smaller and more densely packed, and do not usually have central spots as the jaguar's do. Both leopards and jaguars that are melanistic are known as black panthers.
The leopard's success in the wild is due to its well camouflaged fur; its opportunistic hunting behaviour, broad diet, and strength to move heavy carcasses into trees; its ability to adapt to various habitats ranging from rainforest to steppe and including arid and montane areas; and to run at speeds up to .
It is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because leopard populations are declining in large parts of their range. They are threatened by habitat loss and pest control. Their habitats are fragmented and they are illegally hunted so that their pelts may be sold in wildlife trade for medicinal practices and decoration. They have been extirpated in Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuwait, Syria, Libya, Tunisia and most likely Morocco.
Leopard is the name of a British double stage experimental rocket, which was launched between 1959 and 1962 eleven times from Aberporth. The Leopard has a flight altitude of 20 kilometres, a launch mass of 1.5 tons and a length of 6 metres.
- http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/leopard.htm
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The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five "big cats" in the genus Panthera.
Leopard may also refer to:
The leopard in heraldry is traditionally depicted the same as a lion, but in a walking position with its head turned to full face, thus it is also known as a lion passant guardant in some texts, though leopards more naturally depicted make some appearances in modern heraldry. The Oxford Guide to Heraldry makes little mention of leopards but glosses leopard as a "term used in medieval heraldry for lion passant guardant. Now used for the natural beast." Another name for this beast is the ounce.
A leopard pattern is a spotted color pattern, particularly in the hair coat or skin of animals, but can also describe spotting patterns in plants and fabrics. The term refers to the black and gold spotted coat of the leopard cat, but is used to describe many color combinations that result in spots scattered randomly across the skin or hair coat of other animals.
Examples of animals with coloring patterns termed leopard include many great cats in the Panthera genus, the leopard frog, the "leopard" spotting pattern in the Appaloosa and Knabstrupper breeds of horses, the leopard seal, insects such as the giant leopard moth, and fish species such as the leopard darter and the leopard shark. Examples of plants that use the term include the leopard lily, and the leopard flower.
The Lp ( leopard complex) gene is responsible for the leopard color pattern in horses, which not only produces a spotted coat color but also causes mottling of the skin, a white sclera around the eye, and striped hooves. Horses with the Lp gene may be spotted all over, or may have concentrations of spots in various patterns.
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.