leopardess

English

Etymology

From leopard +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

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Noun

leopardess (plural leopardesses)

1. A female leopard.
   • 1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 47:

     It was the story of the wicked leopardess who wanted to eat the young lambs of her old friend the sheep.

Derived terms

• snow leopardess

Translations

female leopard

Aramaic: Hebrew: נמרתא f (nmartā’) Syriac: ܢܡܪܬܐ f (nmartā’) Esperanto: leopardino French: léoparde (fr) f German: Leopardin (de) f Polish: lamparcica (pl) f Portuguese: leoparda f