puma
Other forms: pumas
A puma is a type of big cat that looks a bit like a lion. In fact, another name for a puma is a mountain lion.
Puma, cougar, panther, and mountain lion are different names for the same animal, the Puma concolor. While pumas are quite a bit larger than your family cat (weighing as much as 200 pounds), they are still considered members of the "small cat" species, which include bobcats, lynx, and ocelots, among many others. Pumas are found from northern Canada to South America, the largest range of any land animal in the Americas.
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large American feline resembling a lionsynonyms: Felis concolor, catamount, cougar, mountain lion, painter, panthertype of:wildcatany small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
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Quechua, which actually refers to several languages spoken throughout the Andes mountain range, has a total of between 8 and 10 million speakers. It is the most widely spoken indigenous language of the Americas. Here is a list of 15 words that English borrowed from Quechua, and while some of them are specific to a life in the Andes, a few, like the animal names, are fully incorporated into English.