Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cougar, Felis concolor. See cut under
cougar .
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- noun Attributive form of
mountain lion
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Examples
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Already, in addition to her own wild-animal skins, were those of deer and coyote and one mountain-lion which Daylight had killed.
Chapter XXV 2010
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A new UC Davis study of 110 years of mountain-lion attacks on people suggests the conventional wisdom of standing your ground may not always be the right course.
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A new UC Davis study of 110 years of mountain-lion attacks on people suggests the conventional wisdom of standing your ground may not always be the right course.
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What captured and perceptibly held his eye for a moment was a Crouched Venus that stood on a Steinway upright against a background of mountain-lion skin on the wall.
Chapter XVIII 2010
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Then the drumming changed, to a more hollow, urgent note, and all the girls jumped up in mock terror, staring about, and cowering as out of the darkness raced the buffalo-dancers, in coloured, fearsome masks surmounted by animal heads-scalps of bison and wolf and deer and mountain-lion.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Californians will vote in March on opening the way to mountain-lion hunting, which has been prohibited there for more than 20 years.
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The most acute mountain-lion problem is in California.
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Arizona recently outlawed trapping cougars (though hunting is legal), while Colorado and Oregon don't allow mountain-lion hunters to use bait or dogs.
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But violent deaths like Kenna's -- and a string of other mountain-lion attacks-are making a powerful case for fighting back.
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A survey of Coloradans living near the Rockies found that 80 percent believe that development in mountain-lion territory should be restricted.
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