PUMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does puma mean? 

• PUMA (noun)
  The noun PUMA has 1 sense:

1. large American feline resembling a lion

  Familiarity information: PUMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large American feline resembling a lion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

catamount; cougar; Felis concolor; mountain lion; painter; panther; puma

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

wildcat (any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild)

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

Felis; genus Felis (type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats)

 Context examples 

I was makin' up a litter in the monkey-house for a young puma which is ill; but when I heard the yelpin' and 'owlin'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)