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noun short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur
noun large American feline resembling a lion
originClipping of catamountain (“leopard, panther; ocelot; man living in the mountains”), from Late Middle English catamountain, from Middle English catte of the mountayne, cate of þe mounttaynne (“leopard, panther”).
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