mountain lion†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large, wild cat, Felis concolor, once common but now confined to southwestern Canada

See: cougar

Quotations

1895

Pourcette had shot two mountain lions. . . .

1963

One wild animal of the Chilcotin interested me greatly--the cougar or mountain lion.