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catamount - 5 dictionary results

cat⋅a⋅mount

[kat-uh-mount]
–noun
1. a wild animal of the cat family, esp. the cougar or the lynx.
2. catamountain.

Origin:
1655–65; short for catamountain
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.

Catamount

Cat"a*mount\, n. [Cat + mount; cf. Sp. gato mentes mountain cat.] (Zo["o]l.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.

catamount 
1664, shortening of cat-o'-mountain (1616), from cat of the mountain (1432).
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