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# jaguar

«jaguar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big, powerful wild cat of Central and South America…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a jaguar, jaguars; Jaguar — a car make)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A jaguar is a big, powerful wild cat of Central and South America, with golden fur covered in rosettes that have spots inside them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#m1)

2) Jaguars are strong swimmers and hunt in rainforests and swamps, catching capybaras, fish, turtles and even caimans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#m2)

3) Jaguar (with a capital J) is a British make of expensive car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons jaguars come up in Amazon rainforest food chains (top predator) and in comparing big cats: the jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and has the strongest bite for its size. In history lessons, the Maya and Aztecs honoured the jaguar as a symbol of power. Pupils learn to tell jaguars from leopards: jaguars are stockier and their rosettes have dots in the middle.

### examples

- The jaguar crept silently through the rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#x1)
- Jaguars are the biggest cats in South America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#x2)
- Unlike most cats, jaguars love water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#x3)
- A jaguar's rosettes have little spots inside them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#x4)
- The jaguar pounced on a caiman by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#x5)
- The ancient Maya carved jaguars on their temples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#x6)
- My uncle's new car is a Jaguar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#x7)
- This is almost identical with a story quoted by Mr. Smith, where the jaguar is about to marry the deer's daughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jaguar/#x8)

### note

Plural «jaguars». Said «JAG-yoo-ar» (UK) or «JAG-wahr» (US). Jaguars live only in the Americas; leopards live in Africa and Asia — if you see a spotted big cat in Africa, it is not a jaguar.

### In the corpora

- [A black panther is a leopard or jaguar with extra dark pigment, and its spots can still be seen in bright light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/8/)
- [Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws, which rip open hard termite mounds and can fight off a jaguar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters/8/)
- [The jaguar has the strongest bite for its size of any big cat and can crack turtle shells and caiman skulls.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/10/)
- [One night Jaguar finds the two under a fallen tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/2/)
- [Hedgehog curls into a ball and Tortoise pulls in his head and feet, so Jaguar cannot tell which is which.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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