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puma|ˈpjuːmə|
[a. Sp. puma (ˈpuma), a. Peruv. puma.]
A large American feline quadruped, Felis concolor, also called cougar.
1777Robertson Hist. Amer. iv. (1783) II. 17 The Puma and Jaguar, its [America's] fiercest beasts of prey, which Europeans have inaccurately denominated lions and tigers, possess neither the undaunted courage of the former, nor the ravenous cruelty of the latter. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xii. (1879) 269 The Puma, or South American Lion, is not uncommon. 1898C. F. Lummis Mexico xiv. 164 The proper name of the American lion to-day is Puma; and that is an Inca word that Pizarro found in the Fifteen-thirties among the Andes. The animal has a range 5000 miles long; but its Peruvian name..by now is accepted, not only in all Spanish countries, but wherever English is spoken.
Comb.1897E. L. Voynich Gadfly (1904) 72/2 We had been wading a river on a puma-hunt.
b. The flesh of this animal.
1845Darwin Voy. Nat. vi. (1852) 116 It turned out to be Puma; the meat is very white, and remarkably like veal in taste. |