(n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group comprised 29 pumas (Felis concolor), 32 lions (Panthera leo), 27 tigers (P tigris), 19 leopards (P pardus), 18 jaguars (P onca) and 22 cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).
(2) Thewlis said the Trust will contact kit suppliers Puma and Wonga to investigate the possibility of replica shirts being made available without the sponsor's logo.
(3) Chemical properties that might be associated with a previously demonstrated difference in molecular charge of purified RUBPCase from cold-hardened and unhardened Puma rye were investigated.
(4) Kering and Puma have published the true cost of the environmental impacts of Puma’s business activities across its supply chain in their Environmental Profit & Loss (E P&L) statement, now being rolled out across all Kering’s brands.
(5) Manchester United are at the centre of a bidding war for a kit deal that could be worth a record £70m a year, with Nike, Adidas, Warrior and Puma reportedly vying to win the contract.
(6) It's a partnership with Puma, the German sports company, and is claimed to be "a wearable fashion accessory".
(7) No men in women’s bathrooms, no boys in girls’ showers or locker rooms.” The man nicknamed Big Puma was referring to a question posed to Houstonians as part of the city’s mayoral election on 3 November: should the city keep its equal rights ordinance?
(8) For the 2014-2015 season, Nike will continue in its role of technical sponsor and trademark licensee.” As reported in the Guardian in January , the contract dwarfs the £30m a-year terms agreed by Arsenal with Puma in that month.
(9) Inseminations using heterologous (domestic cat) spermatozoa also resulted in fertilized oocytes in the tiger, leopard, snow leopard, puma, serval, and Geoffroy's cat (range in fertilization rate, 5.0% for leopard to 46.2% for puma).
(10) On Monday, Arsenal announced a £30m-a-year contract with Puma , meaning United are in line to more than double that amount.
(11) We studied the IgE and IgG4 response of 11 cat-allergic patients against Fel d I-like structures in eight members of the Felidae family: ocelot, puma, serval, siberian tiger, lion, jaguar, snow leopard, and caracal.
(12) In conjunction with an ecological study of jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin of Belize, Central America, fecal samples from jaguars (Panthera onca), jaguarundis (Felis yagouaroundi), ocelots (Felix pardalis), and pumas (Felix concolor) were examined for parasite products (eggs, larvae, and oocysts).
(13) "And adidas, Nike, Puma etc slavishly going along with it.
(14) He has just released his 19th book alongside Jochen Zeitz, former CEO of PUMA and now co-chair, with Sir Richard Branson, of The B Team.
(15) Arsène Wenger will agree a new contract with Arsenal in the near future and is set to be significantly backed in the summer transfer window after the club announced on Monday a record £150m kit deal with Puma, which lasts until 2019.
(16) It proved so successful that sports brand Puma then invited him and fellow Instagrammer Anthony Danielle to document the Volvo Ocean Race in Abu Dhabi, all expenses paid.
(17) According to their site, Pumapac.org, Puma stands for "People United Means Action", an exactly opposite sentiment, prompting the thought that if they don't iron out such inconsistencies in their message very soon indeed, there's a serious chance that Clinton might not be the next president.
(18) Leather from animals is a highly polluting process that generates much toxic runoff via the Chromium-6 salts used in the curing process and the enormous quantities of discarded solid waste and contaminated water,” says Wool, whose company has begun collaborating with Nike and Puma on developing an athletic shoe made out of non-toxic materials.
(19) However, peak cortisol levels in cheetahs and pumas after ACTH were greater (p less than 0.01) than the concentrations measured after EE, indicating that these manipulatory procedures were not eliciting a maximal adrenal response.
(20) Individual values in one female puma are also given.