leopardess

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Etymology

From leopard +‎ -ess.

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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.

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