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oceloid

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oc⋅e⋅lot

  [os-uh-lot, oh-suh-]
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–noun
a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
Origin:
1765–75; < F, appar. arbitrary shortening of Nahuatl tlālōcēlōtl ocelot, equiv. to tlāl(li) earth, land + ōcēlōtl jaguar

Related forms:
oc⋅e⋅loid, adjective
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