(n.) A large dark-colored variety of the leopard, by some zoologists considered a distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body.
(n.) In America, the name is applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar.
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) Two days later, Bobby Hutton, a 17- year-old member of the Black Panthers, was killed in a shoot-out with police in Oakland, California.
(3) The black Americans who were drafted from 1967 to 1970 called themselves Bloods, and many were influenced by the teachings and politics of Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. Terry explains: "They would wear black amulets, they would wear black beads, black gloves to show their identity and racial pride."
(4) 49ers 13-10 Panthers, end of the second quarter And the Panthers just let the clock run out to end the first half.
(5) She unabashedly referenced the Black Panthers, and made Black Power salutes, all while asserting her own cultural and ethnic identity.
(6) "Panthers didn't try to sound all intellectual … They simply called a pig a pig."
(7) When the first Swat team was deployed in the late '60s, its target was a single remaining cell of the Black Panthers .
(8) Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) Colin Kaepernick does Superman celebration on Panthers after TD.
(9) This report implicates the Florida panther as another possible host for C. felis.
(10) 8.15pm GMT 49ers 20-10 Panthers, 4:10, 3rd quarter Newton passes to LaFell for nine yards.
(11) for the word "brave" at the end of the national anthem, still booed the Panthers' players as they entered the field and still made a racket as the opposition lined up for key third downs.
(12) 9.07pm GMT Final score: Panthers 21-20 Falcons For a moment it appeared as though the Falcons were about to throw a spanner in the works, driving up to near midfield with 30 seconds left to play.
(13) With references to the Black Lives Matter movement , Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, Beyoncé’s half-time show at the Super Bowl on Sunday might be the most radical political statement from the superstar in her 20-year career.
(14) Their season was discussed in the past tense, as though it had ended with the week 16 loss to Carolina that allowed the Panthers to leapfrog them into first place in the NFC South.
(15) The half of the Booker money that he didn’t give to the Black Panthers he spent on putting together, with Mohr again, a book called A Seventh Man (1975).
(16) The following year, he, alongside Rubin, Tom Hayden and five others, including Black Panther Bobby Seale, was charged with conspiracy to cause violence in Chicago.
(17) According to Aspiro, it began talks with Jay Z’s company in December – the same month that Project Panther was incorporated as a company in the UK.
(18) #TIDALforALL March 30, 2015 Tidal is a Spotify rival originally launched by Norwegian firm Aspiro in October 2014, before the company was acquired by Project Panther Bidco , a company controlled by Jay Z, in March 2015.
(19) 6.55pm GMT 49ers 6-7 Panthers, 13:08, 2nd quarter Whoa, great 20 yard Boldin run there for San Francisco and just like that they're just about at midfield.
(20) 7.28pm GMT 49ers 6-10 Panthers, 1:05, 2nd quarter 2nd and 5 on the Carolina 25, Kaepernick connects with Boldin for a 15 yard pass and only nine yards separate the 49ers from their first touchdown.
Pantherine
Definition:
(a.) Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Divergence estimates for pantherines have been based in large part on very fragmentary material, so having a beautifully preserved specimen to accurately place in the big cat family tree means that we can have a lot more confidence in the result.
(2) Any part of this window still places it as the oldest pantherine, but constraining that to a more specific date between 4-6m years ago will be essential to furthering our understanding of pantherine evolution and indeed the evolution of this new species."
(3) Goswami said that the geographic origin of pantherines was perplexing, because the distribution of living species suggested an Asian origin for the group, but the oldest fossils were from Africa, suggesting an African origin.
(4) The messy, craggy, ursine Hollywood wildman and the pantherine, inscrutable politician.
(5) Nailing down the place of origin for pantherines also means that we can better understand the environmental and ecological context in which this group evolved."
(6) "This beautiful fossil supports the Asian origin for the group, bringing together molecular, living and fossil data into a unified view of pantherine evolution.