leopardess
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of leopardess
Example Sentences
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Nature The new episode “The Leopard Legacy” relates the family saga of a powerful leopardess that rules over a large realm along the Luangwa River of Zambia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2021
The leopardess flirted by flicking her tail in the face of her mate until he sprang with fang and claw, snarling, whirling.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he looked in to her eyes he fancied that he saw a young leopardess from an African jungle looking at him through the lithe, graceful form of a Southern woman.
From The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South by Thomas Dixon
It would have been much like trying to pat a young, unfed leopardess.
From Vision House by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
His encounter, therefore, with Mrs. Lee presented the distressing spectacle of an old, toothless, mumbling mastiff, fighting for the household to which he owed allegiance against a young leopardess fresh from the forests.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
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