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cat⋅a⋅mount

  [kat-uh-mount]
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–noun
1. a wild animal of the cat family, esp. the cougar or the lynx.
2. catamountain.
Origin:
1655–65; short for catamountain
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cat·a·mount   (kāt'ə-mount')   
n.  See mountain lion.

[Short for catamountain.]
mountain lion  
n.   Chiefly Western U.S.
A large powerful wild cat (Felis concolor) of mountainous regions of the Western Hemisphere, having an unmarked tawny body. Also called catamount, mountain cat, panther, puma; also called regionally cougar, painter3.
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Word Origin & History

catamount 
1664, shortening of cat-o'-mountain (1616), from cat of the mountain (1432).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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