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# leopard

«leopard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big wild cat with yellow fur covered in dark spots…** — 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 leopard, leopards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A leopard is a big wild cat with yellow fur covered in dark spots called rosettes; it lives in Africa and parts of Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#m1)

2) Leopards are strong climbers and often drag their food up into trees to keep it safe from lions and hyenas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#m2)

3) «Leopard print» is a pattern on clothes that looks like a leopard's spots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons leopards come up in camouflage (spots help them hide in the shade), food chains (top predator) and comparing big cats: a cheetah has solid round spots and a slim body, a jaguar has bigger rosettes with dots inside and lives in the Americas. The saying «a leopard can't change its spots» means people do not really change who they are. A black leopard is often called a black panther.

### examples

- The leopard rested on a branch in the afternoon heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#x1)
- A leopard's spots help it hide in the long grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#x2)
- The leopard dragged its catch up into a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#x3)
- Leopards hunt mostly at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#x4)
- A black panther is often a leopard with very dark fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#x5)
- Gran wore a leopard-print scarf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#x6)
- «A leopard can't change its spots», said Dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#x7)
- There you will see many wild beasts—lions, tigers, leopards, apes, and so on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leopard/#x8)

### note

Plural «leopards». Spelling trap: «leo-pard», the «o» is silent; say «LEP-erd». Do not mix up leopard, cheetah and jaguar: cheetahs have simple spots and tear marks on the face; jaguars live in the Americas and have dots inside their rosettes. The young is a «cub».

### In the corpora

- [Leopards drag their kills, sometimes as heavy as themselves, up into trees where lions and hyenas cannot steal them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/5/)
- [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/)
- [Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/5/)
- [Bagheera in The Jungle Book is a black leopard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/15/)
- [You watch a snow leopard creep across a cliff for three thrilling minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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