snow leopard

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noun

a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.

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Also called ounce².

Origin of snow leopard

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby snow leopard

snow gum, snow hole, snow ice, snow-in-summer, snow job, snow leopard, snow lily, snow line, snowmaker, snowmaking, snowman

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How to use snow leopard in a sentence

His photography mainly focuses on endangered species, such as the snow leopard, the Pyrenean brown bear, or the Balearic shearwater.
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Yet these pastoralists share this rugged, mountainous terrain with snow leopards and Himalayan wolves that routinely target their livestock, setting up what for centuries has been a classic man-versus-animal conflict.
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Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.
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But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.
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There was snow on the ground when I made my last trip to see Sheffield.
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“I think there's too much snow in Finland at the present time,” he announces.
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Because the American film industry is based in the sun bleached sands of Southern California, movies rarely feature snow.
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To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.
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By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.
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At the foot of the pass, the valley widened a little, though still with steep, snow-capped cliffs crowding it on either side.
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I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.
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She may be as chaste as unsunned snow, she is certainly as cold: but for warm, inspiring virtue!
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British Dictionary definitions for snow leopard

snow leopard

noun

a large feline mammal, Panthera uncia, of mountainous regions of central Asia, closely related to the leopard but having a long pale brown coat marked with black rosettesAlso called: ounce

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