Puma

See also: puma, pumă, and púma

Translingual

Puma concolor (mountain lion)

Puma yagouaroundi (jaguarundi)

Etymology

From Quechua puma.

Proper noun

Puma f

A taxonomic genus within the family Felidae – the mountain lion and the jaguarundi.

Hypernyms

(species): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Carnivora - order; Feliformia - suborder; Felidae - family; Felinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

(genus): Puma concolor, Puma yagouaroundi (species)

References

Puma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Puma on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Puma on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Puma in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
Puma on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Puma at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Puma at Fossilworks

English

Proper noun

Puma

A village in the Solomon Islands
An administrative ward in Tanzania
A Kiranti language spoken in Nepal

Anagrams

paum, upma

German

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

Puma m (genitive Pumas, plural Pumas)

cougar (mountain lion)

Further reading

Puma in Duden online

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