Definitions
large American feline resembling a lion
Word origin
From French couguar, from Portuguese cuguardo, a deformation of Brazilian Portuguese suçuarana (earlier çuçuarana), from Old Tupi sûasuarana.
Used in a sentence
“The Cougar has entirely disappeared, or is very rarely met with. This animal was about the size of the wolf, of a gray color, strong, active, fierce and untameable.”
“The only indigenous long tailed cat in America north of the parallel of 30 degrees is the cougar. The wild cats, so called, are lynxes with short tails; and of these there are three distinct species.”
“A cougar approached Warren at the Palomino Club and asked for a dance.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Large wild cat”6 letters
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