puma

(redirected from Pumas)
Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Encyclopedia.

pu·ma

 (po͞o′mə, pyo͞o′-)
n.
See cougar.

[Spanish, from Quechua.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

puma

(ˈpjuːmə)
n
(Animals) a large American feline mammal, Felis concolor, that resembles a lion, having a plain greyish-brown coat and long tail. Also called: cougar or mountain lion
[C18: via Spanish from Quechuan]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

pu•ma

(ˈpyu mə, ˈpu-)

n., pl. -mas.
1. cougar.
2. the fur of a cougar.
[1770–80; < Sp < Quechua]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.puma - large American feline resembling a lionpuma - large American feline resembling a lion
Felis, genus Felis - type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats
wildcat - any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
Translations
بوما: الأسَد الأمريكي
puma
puma
puuma
puumavuorileijona
puma
púma, fjallaljón
puma
puma

puma

[ˈpjuːmə] Npuma m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

puma

[ˈpjuːmə] npuma m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

puma

nPuma m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

puma

[ˈpjuːmə] npuma m inv
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

puma

(ˈpjuːmə) noun
(also cougar (ˈkuːgə) ) a type of wild animal like a large cat, found in America.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in classic literature ?
Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.
I told him that he ought to think himself lucky it wasn't anything worse than a monkey and a snake, for the last person Roscoe Sherriff handled, an emotional actress named Devenish, had to keep a young puma. But he wouldn't listen, and the end of it was that he rang off and I have not seen or heard of him since.
In riding back in the morning we came across a very fresh track of a Puma, but did not succeed in finding it.
I was makin' up a litter in the monkey house for a young puma which is ill.
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 Pumas were on the front foot in the early exchanges, but the Vikings were first on the scoreboard when a catch-and-drive move from a line out on the left wing saw the ball worked across the Pumas' 22.
Access to babies' enclosure was still restricted while the male puma had been separated from the mother, he added.
The number of pumas at Korangi Zoo has now reached four.
Well organized and clearly presented, information emerges from field work examples, such as the tracking studies that showed that pumas feed almost exclusively on wild prey rather than domestic herds.
The game got off to a fast start and, after just three minutes, Andrew Perry put Glamorgan ahead, but the Pumas quickly levelled through Sanna Jawo.
"Without additional avenues for pumas to move safely between large habitat blocks, these populations will continue to see decreased gene flow, as well as high mortality rates, which will decrease their chances of long-term survival in the region," lead author Katherine Zeller, a wildlife biologist at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, said in the UC Davis statement.