LEOPARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leopard mean? 

• LEOPARD (noun)
  The noun LEOPARD has 2 senses:

1. the pelt of a leopard

2. large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots

  Familiarity information: LEOPARD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEOPARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The pelt of a leopard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("leopard" is a kind of...):

fur; pelt (the dressed hairy coat of a mammal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

leopard; Panthera pardus

Hypernyms ("leopard" is a kind of...):

big cat; cat (any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leopard"):

leopardess (female leopard)

panther (a leopard in the black color phase)

Holonyms ("leopard" is a member of...):

genus Panthera; Panthera (lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)

 Context examples 

It was the leopard and the lion, and the lion made all the noise.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The study in the journal PLOS Biology lists what the authors say are the world's 10 most charismatic animals: tigers, lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, pandas, cheetahs, polar bears, gray wolves and gorillas.

(Study: Popularity of Wildlife Can Harm Public's Perception, VOA)

Back and forward reeled the leopard banner, now borne up the slope by the rush and weight of the onslaught, now pushing downwards again as Sir Nigel, Burley, and Black Simon with their veteran men-at arms, flung themselves madly into the fray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In addition to the fox, the team also discovered extinct species of a wooly rhino (Coelodonta thibetana), three-toed horse (Hipparion), Tibetan bharal (Pseudois, known as blue sheep), chiru (Pantholops, known as Tibetan antelope), snow leopard (Uncia), badger (Meles), and 23 other mammals.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

Wolf Larsen was the leopard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No clang of bugle rose from their stern ranks, but in the centre waved the leopards of England, on the right the ensign of their Company with the roses of Loring, and on the left, over three score of Welsh bowmen, there floated the red banner of Merlin with the boars'-heads of the Buttesthorns.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looked it, and the piercing glitter that arose at times in his eyes was the same piercing glitter I had observed in the eyes of caged leopards and other preying creatures of the wild.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)