[
US
/ˈkætəˌmaʊnt/
]
NOUN
- large American feline resembling a lion
- short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur
How To Use catamount In A Sentence
- Aside from the sanctity of my goats and all I am happy to have coyotes, catamounts, bears and other preditors in the woods, they are hallmarks of a heathy ecosystem with all of its components in place. The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question.
- Cougar, puma, mountain lion, catamount, panther - by any name, this big cat has inspired wilderness lovers across the country.
- Most can imagine what a mountain lion/puma/cougar/mountain devil / catamount (just in case you only recognize one) looks like.
- But, had never known that ‘couger’ is tantamount to catamount.
- In 1986 they cofounded Catamount Brewery, one of the first microbreweries in New England.
- Many of them were among endangered species which are protected by the government, such as catamounts and tigers.
- Known by many names - puma, cougar, catamount, panther - this large feline predator was once wide-spread throughout much of North America.
- Nobody hed thought of hevin 'much of a fight, - thar hed been jes' a few licks passed atwixt the men thar; but the fust finger ez war laid on this boy, he jes 'lit out an' fit like a catamount. In the Tennessee mountains,
- The old man enquired why I seemed so much terrified, and my brothers told him that I would persist in calling a screech-owl, a catamount. The Path of Duty, and Other Stories
- They were given different names: Klan-dagi by some native peoples, while others have called them panther, catamount, mountain lion, puma, among other names.