chetah
Britishnoun
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There are two distinct species of the leopard in Ceylon—viz., the "chetah," and the "leopard" or "panther."
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
Out rolled furs, many and many of them, black, and yellow, and striped--the pelts of the grizzly, of the leopard, the chetah, the royal Bengal himself.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
The "chetah" is much smaller than the leopard, seldom exceeding seven feet from the nose to the end of tile tail.
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
I'd told Ivy where I was going to spread the chetah and that after that I'd come straight home.
From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
The chetah is a great big cat But very quick, for all of that, She's cunning but she's gentle, too, And if you're good she's good to you.
From Animal Children The Friends of the Forest and the Plain by Edith Brown Kirkwood
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