Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: puma
IPA transcription: [p'umÉ™]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: cougar, puma, catamount, mountain_lion, painter, panther, Felis_concolor
    Meaning: large American feline resembling a lion
Usage examples
  • I heard the puma growling through the wall, and one of the dogs yelped as though it had been struck.
  • This is a biological station--of a sort." His eye rested on the men in white who were busily hauling the puma, on rollers, towards the walled yard.
  • I followed the llama up the beach, and was overtaken by Montgomery, who asked me not to enter the stone enclosure. I noticed then that the puma in its cage and the pile of packages had been placed outside the entrance to this quadrangle.
  • I made no ado, but set to work on the biscuits at once, while the white-haired man helped Montgomery to release about a score more of the rabbits. Three big hutches, however, went up to the house with the puma. The brandy I did not touch, for I have been an abstainer from my birth.
  • It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals--which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house--were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts.