leopard

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɛp.əd/    美 /ˈlɛp.ɚd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia.
    — During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself.
  2. Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia.; The male of the species P. pardus, in contrast to leopardess. especially
  3. A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard. broadly
    — There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.
  4. A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.; A clouded leopard (either Neofelis nebulosa or Neofelis diardi), a large wild cat native to Asia. broadly
  5. A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.; The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia. broadly
  6. A lion passant guardant.
    — Sometimes there is confusion over the heraldic leopard, the question being—When is a leopard not a leopard? There is a theory that the lion and leopard were the same thing, and that they were named entirely depending on their attitude—thus if the animal was passant guardant it was a leopard, but when rampant it was a lion. Nowadays a leopard is the genuine spotted article and quite unmistakeable. Some people still speak, wrongly, of the leopards of England, but it does no great harm as it is an ancient expression and everybody knows what it means.
  7. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.

词形变化

leopards plural lybard alternative libbard alternative

词汇关系

近义词
common leopard pard pardal
上位词
cat and wild cat panther
下位词
leopardess cub leopard cub
衍生词
a leopard cannot change its spots a leopard does not change its spots Amur leopard Arabian leopard Atlantic Coast leopard frog Bornean clouded leopard cameleopard Catahoula leopard dog clouded leopard common leopard giant leopard moth hunting leopard leopard cat leopard complex leopard crawl leopard cub leopard eel leopardess leopard flower leopard frog leopard gecko leopard ground squirrel leopardine leopardlike leopard lily leopardling leopard lizard leopard man leopard moray leopard moray eel leopard moth leopard orchid leopard print leopardsbane leopard seal Leopards Eating People's Faces Party leopard shark leopard's head leopard siren leopardskin leopard slug leopard snake leopard-spermophile leopard squirrel leopard tortoise leopard tree leopardwood leopon lipard Louisiana Catahoula leopard dog Manchurian leopard pumapard sea leopard serpopard snow-leopard snow leopard wereleopard
相关词
camelopard pard pardal leopon

词源

From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian [script needed] (palang), Khwarezmian [script needed] (plyk), Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).
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