leoparde

Noun

leopard (plural leopards)

1. A large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus).
   • During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a...1990, Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, published 1992, page 284
   1. (especially) The male of the species P. pardus, as distinguished from a leopardess.
2. (broadly) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
   • There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary...2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, page 81
   1. (broadly) A clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa or Neofelis diardi), a large wild cat native to Asia.
   2. (broadly) The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
3. A lion passant guardant.
   • Sometimes there is confusion over the heraldic leopard, the question being—When is a leopard not a leopard? There is a theory that the lion and leopard were the same thing, and that they were named entirely depending on their attitude—thus if the animal was passant guardant it was a leopard, but...1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 68–69

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