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Catamount

noun

Short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur. Synonym: lynx.

Large American feline resembling a lion. Synonyms: cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma.

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"Catamount" Quotes from Famous Books

... than a—of a—comes out in the next fifty year, he'll be it!" stormed Austin. "But, damn it," he added, "the little devil's worse'n a catamount for fight!" ...

— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White

... struck on the beach, and out of it came many savages, the colour of whose faces was like that of the stranger who is with us. They commenced talking to the Narragansetts in a language which none of them understood, any more than they understood the cry of the catamount. The Narragansetts were preparing to use upon the strangers the bows and arrows which the Little Man had given them, when one of them, laughing very loudly and sillily, held up a strange-shaped thing, which had a long neck to it like the ugly bird which ...

— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones

Words linked to "Catamount" : bay lynx, genus Felis, common lynx, Lynx lynx, Lynx rufus, Lynx canadensis, spotted lynx, bobcat, Lynx pardina, Felis, desert lynx, Lynx caracal, Canada lynx, caracal, genus Lynx, wildcat