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
When she comes into a room she makes an impression the same as the beauty of a leopardess....
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
Yulun, intent as a young leopardess on her prey, moved soundlessly toward Yaddin.
From The Slayer Of souls by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"And a huge leopardess with two cubs walked out on to the ledge and came to him and threw herself down with a heavy lunge near his feet."
From The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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