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Mountain lion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cougar, Puma concolor.

    "The mountain lion may prowl here during any month."

  2. 2
    large American feline resembling a lion wordnet

Etymology

From mountain (“the animal's habitat”), + lion (“an African cat of similar size and color”). First use appears c. 1615.

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