cheetahs
- 1Plural of cheetah.
Wild cheetahs rely on short bursts of speed to bring down prey.
Conservationists tracked several cheetahs across the reserve using radio collars.
Note
A plain regular plural: the singular cheetah simply takes -s, with none of the unchanged plurals that deer or sheep keep. It counts individual animals (three cheetahs on the reserve) and can speak for the species Acinonyx jubatus as a whole, the long-limbed, small-headed cat credited as the fastest land animal. The possessive follows the usual pattern: a cheetah's spots, the cheetahs' range.
cheetahs is a form of cheetah
cheetah, noun: A spotted member of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard but with longer limbs and a smaller head, native to Africa and southeast Asia, and reputed to be the fastest land animal. Full entry
- Forms
- cheetahcheetahs plural
- Spelling
- cheetah → cheetahs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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