cougar

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The animal making the easiest prey for the cougar is the elk.

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  1. noun Chiefly Western U.S. See mountain lion.

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  • For the record, I also hate the term cougar which was a term my friends wore with some kind of warped pride back when we were all single and thirty-somethings and once again, it made me squirm. —  motherbumper
  • Finding concentrations of deer and elk or fresh cougar tracks in the snow will increase a hunter's chance of tagging a cougar, but hunters don't necessarily need to locate a lot of cougar sign to be in the right location.
  • As a 40 year old woman, I despise the term cougar. —  The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
  • I mean this cougar could be just a step away from being the sexiest world leader.
  • The cougar is the second largest cat in the Americas, after the jaguar. —  cab drollery
 

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  1. French couguar, alteration (influenced by jaguar, jaguar) of Portuguese çuçuarana, from Tupi suasuarana : suasú, deer + rana, like (from its color).

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  1. Also couguar, cougouar (after F.), cuguar = French couguar = Spanish cuguardo = G. Danish kuguar, etc.; contr. of native South American name cuguacuara, cuguacuarana.
 

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/ˈkugər/
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