Jaguar

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jaguar \Ja*guar"\, n. [Braz. yago['a]ra: cf. & Pg. jaguar.]
     (Zool.)
     A large and powerful feline animal ({Panthera onca}, formerly
     {Felis onca}), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It
     is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat
     angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark


     spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. It is also
     called the {panther} and the {American tiger}.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jaguar
       n : a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the
           leopard; in some classifications considered a member of
           the genus Felis [syn: {panther}, {Panthera onca}, {Felis
           onca}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "jaguar":
     Dalmatian, Leo, Siberian tiger, antigorite, bobcat, butterfly,
     candy cane, cat-a-mountain, catamount, chameleon, cheetah,
     chrysotile, confetti, cougar, crazy quilt, firedog, harlequin,
     iris, leopard, lion, lynx, mackerel, mackerel sky, marble,
     marbled paper, moire, mother-of-pearl, mountain lion, nacre,
     ocelot, opal, ophite, painter, panther, patchwork quilt, peacock,
     puma, rainbow, serpentine, serpentine marble, shot silk, simba,
     spectrum, tiger, tortoise shell, wildcat, zebra