Puma

See also: puma, pumă, and púma

Translingual

Puma concolor (mountain lion)

Puma yagouaroundi (jaguarundi)

Etymology

From Quechua puma.

Proper noun

Puma f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Felidae – the mountain lion and the jaguarundi.

Hypernyms

• (species): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Feliformia - suborder; Felidae - family; Felinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Puma concolor, (species)

References

• Puma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Puma on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Puma on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Puma in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Puma at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Puma at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Puma at Paleobiology Database

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English

Proper noun

Puma

1. A village in the Solomon Islands.
2. An administrative ward in the Singida Rural district of Tanzania.
3. A Kiranti language spoken in Nepal.

Noun

Puma (plural Pumas)

1. An athletic shoe or other piece of athletic gear of a German-based brand of that name.

   Joe Fortune shook his head, swung his legs over the edge of the bunk, and put on his Pumas.

Anagrams

• paum, upma

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German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Puma m (genitive Pumas, plural Pumas)

1. cougar (mountain lion)

Further reading

• “Puma” in Duden online