(n.) An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not known whether limitation of ammoniagenesis and elevated plasma glucose concentration also characterize larger felidae such as panthers and cougars.
(2) The rest is left to mule deer, cougars, marmots, badgers – and me.
(3) It’s also good to take advice on bear and cougar safety .
(4) FULHAM Accounts for the year to 30 June 2014 Ownership Owned by Shahid Khan, via Big Cat Holdings, a company registered in Bermuda (tax haven), and Cougar HoldCo London, registered in the UK.
(5) This is an industry that has Cougar Night practically next door to my office and thinks it’s perfectly appropriate to meet there for business conversations.” Since some of the big tech companies began releasing their generally dismal diversity statistics back in 2014, prompting rebukes from both the media and the federal government , the race has been on to make Silicon Valley a more welcoming place for women and minorities.
(6) I hope Bridget's not some awful giddy cougar but I think that's unlikely."
(7) Islet amyloid isolated from the pancreas of a 20-year-old cougar (Felis concolor) was dissolved and purified by gel permeation and reversed phase HPLC for amino acid sequence analysis.
(8) An estimated 650,000 Nanophyetus salmincola were recovered from the small intestine of a wild female cougar kitten (Felis concolor).
(9) The new fossil suggests central Asia, rather than Africa, was where the panthera sub family, including lions, jaguars, tigers, leopards, snow leopards, and clouded leopards, diverged from the rest of the cat family tree, felinae, which includes cougars, lynxes, and domestic cats.
(10) The movie's central theme will be familiar to those who have seen Hollywood's "cougar" films: older, recently retired woman has an affair with younger, sexually voracious man.
(11) The woods are home to grizzlies, black bears, cougars, wolves and coyotes, so it’s important to keep to the 191 miles of trails in the park – which range in difficulty from short strolls to steep treks of several days’ duration – and to make a noise while walking to scare off any bears.
(12) IAPP from the cougar, like IAPP from the human and domesticated cat, incorporates an inherently amyloidogenic AILS sequence at positions 25-28.
(13) The common occurrence of sarcocysts in muscles of top carnivores such panthers and cougars is unexplained.
(14) Washington State blows the New Mexico Bowl Facebook Twitter Pinterest Okay, not one of the marquee bowls on the schedule, but any game where a team blows a 45-30 lead in the final three minutes as the Washington State Cougars did against the Colorado State Rams belongs on this list.
(15) More comedy coverage Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality Lee Mack review – latterday Eric Morecambe is gloriously daft Ahmed Ahmed review – adolescent gags about pot, ‘cougars’ and race Kevin Bridges: you can’t be complacent in comedy Never mind the broadcasts: TV doesn’t make or break a standup Angela Barnes: the salty standup mentored by ‘Auntie’ Sarah Millican All hail the Pajama Men: the Velvet Underground of comedy Sheeps, Beasts and the new breed of sketch show Lee Evans review – when he starts talking he stops being funny
(16) Cross-reactive antibodies to FIV were common in several free-ranging populations of large cats, including East African lions and cheetahs of the Serengeti ecosystem and in puma (also called cougar or mountain lion) populations throughout North America.
(17) Rafael Gutiérrez, executive director of Costa Rica's national conservation system, agrees: “It has always been a controversial issue, mainly because the media was all over ministers to stop the programme.” He told the Guardian an eradication effort would begin in 2015, with castration or the introduction of cougars being considered as well as hunting or poisoning.
(18) were found in the striated muscles from 11 of 14 wild Florida panthers (Felis concolor coryi) and four of four cougars (two wild F. concolor stanleyana and two captive F. concolor of undetermined subspecies).
(19) We laugh about Mamils (middle-aged men in Lycra) and cougars (middle-aged women sleeping with younger men).
(20) Ollulanus tricuspis is reported for the first time from cougars and represents the first occurrence of this parasite in a sylvatic felid from North America.
Mustang
Definition:
(n.) The half-wild horse of the plains in Mexico, California, etc. It is small, hardy, and easily sustained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Car enthusiasts ship their classic Mustangs, Fords and Chevys across oceans to cruise this iconic road and experience a true slice of Americana.
(2) Back in the 19th century, cowboys used the point as a natural corral, where they could herd mustangs out to the tip and build a fence across the bottleneck of the point.
(3) They reached a road and a waiting car, an old yellow Mustang.
(4) Once someone had put my feet in the chunky stirrups, I was handed the reins of a mustang crossbreed known as Amigo.
(5) 10 July 2011 A North American P-51 Mustang and a Douglas A-1 Skyraider are involved in a midair collision at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
(6) 16 Cal Poly felt incredibly comfortable, with the Shockers' Cleanthony Early, who finished the game with 23 points, at times threatening to outscore the entire Mustangs squad.
(7) The Douglas lands safely and the Mustang pilot parachutes to safety as his plane plummets to the ground.
(8) Unfortunately, only one of our group had remained sober to drive us to our hotel, several hours away, and it was the one whose other car is a Mustang.
(9) Gina Mule, a witness at the Lee Highway location, told CNN she saw a white male in a silver convertible Ford Mustang with a gun.
(10) Vselensky’s friends believe the arrest, on drug charges, was made to compel Mustang Wanted, the celebrity Ukrainian roofer who claimed responsibility for the action on his Facebook page, to turn himself over to the Russian police.
(11) But on Friday a Ukrainian roofer known as Mustang Wanted, whose videos of himself hanging from buildings at vertigo-inducing heights have earned him online notoriety, posted a photograph of himself standing on top of the repainted star and said he had coloured it and topped it with a Ukrainian flag "in an outburst of genuine patriotic feelings".
(12) With a budget of Hollywood proportions – £2.5m just for this set piece – the Grand Tour’s opening scene at midnight on Thursday featured Clarkson and co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond in red, white and blue Ford Mustangs leading a convoy of 150 vehicles to a huge tent in the Californian desert.
(13) The SMU Mustangs, coached by Larry Brown ( yes that Larry Brown ) were expected to make a tournament appearance, but will have to settle for a trip to the NIT .
(14) Top tip: The Steens are famous among wild horse enthusiasts, who travel to the region to catch a glimpse of a rare Kiger mustang, hardy horses directly descended from Spanish stock brought to North America in the 17th century.
(15) It is popular with foreign tourists visiting the Mount Annapurna and Mustang region for trekking, and with Hindu pilgrims visiting the Muktinath temple .
(16) It has been found that malondialdehyde penetrates during smoking through filters and exhales with smoke from cigarettes such as: "Pall Mall", "Winston", "Camel", "Lucky Strike", "Kansas", "Mustang", "Ronson", "Chesterfield", "Rally", "Oscar" and "Marlboro".