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# cougar

«cougar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large wild cat of North and South America, with brown…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a cougar, cougars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cougar is a large wild cat of North and South America, with brown fur and a long tail; it is also called a puma or mountain lion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/#m1)

2) (rude, adult slang) a rude word grown-ups use; not for school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography, cougars are top predators in mountains and forests of the Americas, from Canada to Chile; they hunt deer and are mostly shy of people. Safety in cougar country: stay in a group, keep small children close, and never run from one — stand tall and make noise.

### examples

- The cougar crept silently through the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/#x1)
- A cougar is also called a puma or a mountain lion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/#x2)
- Cougars hunt deer in the mountains of Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/#x3)
- The sign in the park said: «Cougar country — keep children close». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/#x4)
- A cougar can leap higher than a basketball hoop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/#x5)
- We saw a cougar at the zoo, sleeping in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/#x6)

### note

Countable: one cougar, two cougars. Cougar, puma and mountain lion are all the same animal; it is not a lion and does not roar.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cougar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cougar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.