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  • noun Plural form of ocelot.

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Examples

  • I wonder if the preponderance of ocelots is a self-selected function of being a Roger Reader.

    Androne here Roger Sutton 2007

  • He owns a cacao plantation in this swath of untamed cloud forest in northern Venezuela, where ocelots dart under towering saman trees and howler monkeys shriek at visitors.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 29, 2009 2009

  • And of course, we wouldn't want you to miss out on your weekly dose of cute baby animals, so we've got baby ocelots, lion cubs, and newborn elephants for you!

    PHOTOS: This Week's Best In Animals -- Baby Ocelots, Lion Cubs, Baby Elephant & More The Huffington Post 2011

  • Such is the collective inner monologue of modern man; surely if ocelots were the dominant species they wouldn't let some marshlands get in the way of their new parking lot -- why should we?

    Patrick Vergara: The Death of the Biodegradable Bag Patrick Vergara 2010

  • Such is the collective inner monologue of modern man; surely if ocelots were the dominant species they wouldn't let some marshlands get in the way of their new parking lot -- why should we?

    Patrick Vergara: The Death of the Biodegradable Bag Patrick Vergara 2010

  • And of course, we wouldn't want you to miss out on your weekly dose of cute baby animals, so we've got baby ocelots, lion cubs, and newborn elephants for you!

    PHOTOS: This Week's Best In Animals -- Baby Ocelots, Lion Cubs, Baby Elephant & More The Huffington Post 2011

  • He seemed as disdainful of the party as J.J. and only wandered a little farther down the walkway before stopping to watch some ocelots.

    BELLY UP STUART GIBBS 2010

  • Reproductive scientists like those who brought Miracle Kitten into the world are key to addressing the conservation and management challenges associated with ocelots.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • The four researchers went to several zoos to observe and film tigers, jaguars, lions and ocelots, and went to YouTube to find videos of bobcats, cheetahs, leopards and lionesses drinking in the wild.

    Scientists learn physics behind how cats drink water without getting wet Marc Kaufman 2010

  • They had stopped speaking after an uneventful holiday party for the twin towns where no one was charged with civil disobedience, no domesticated ocelots were released into chicken houses and no adulterous spouses were harangued into participating in rigged gamesofWilliam Tell.

    The Case of M and N 2010

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