leopards
- 1Plural of leopard.
Leopards often drag their kills high into trees to keep them from scavengers.
Several leopards have been photographed near the village over the past year.
Note
A regular plural, but the singular behind it covers more than one animal. Leopards can be Panthera pardus, its clouded and snow cousins, or orange-and-black Phalanta butterflies. In heraldry, leopards are lions passant guardant. Leopard can single out the male against leopardess, but the plural usually names the species as a whole, so a group of males and females is simply leopards.
leopards is a form of leopard
leopard, noun: A large wild cat, Panthera pardus, with a spotted coat, native to Africa and Asia, especially the male, in contrast to the female leopardess. Full entry
- Forms
- leopardleopards plural
- Spelling
- leopard → leopards: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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