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pu·ma

(po͞o′mə, pyo͞o′-)

[Spanish, from Quechua.]

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puma

(ˈpjuːmə)

(Animals) a large American feline mammal, Felis concolor, that resembles a lion, having a plain greyish-brown coat and long tail. Also called: cougar or mountain lion

[C18: via Spanish from Quechuan]

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pu•ma

(ˈpyu mə, ˈpu-)

n., pl. -mas.

1. cougar.

2. the fur of a cougar.

[1770–80; < Sp < Quechua]

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Noun

puma - large American feline resembling a lion

cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, catamount, panther, painter

Felis, genus Felis - type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats

wildcat - any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild

Translations

بوما: الأسَد الأمريكي

puma

Puma

πούμα

puma

puuma

puumavuorileijona

puma

puma

púma, fjallaljón

puma

puma

puma

[ˈpjuːmə] N → puma m

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puma

[ˈpjuːmə] n → puma m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

puma

n → Puma m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

puma

[ˈpjuːmə] n → puma m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

puma

(ˈpjuːmə) noun

(also cougar (ˈkuːgə) ) a type of wild animal like a large cat, found in America.

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Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.

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I told him that he ought to think himself lucky it wasn't anything worse than a monkey and a snake, for the last person Roscoe Sherriff handled, an emotional actress named Devenish, had to keep a young puma. But he wouldn't listen, and the end of it was that he rang off and I have not seen or heard of him since.

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I was makin' up a litter in the monkey house for a young puma which is ill.

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Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.

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In riding back in the morning we came across a very fresh track of a Puma, but did not succeed in finding it.

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