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jaguar

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈd͡ʒæɡ.jʊə//
  • United Kingdom//ˈd͡ʒæɡ.juː.ə//
  • United Kingdom//ˈd͡ʒæɡ.juː.ɑː//
  • United States//ˈd͡ʒæɡ.wɑɹ//

A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

noun

  1. 1

    A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Forms

plural
jaguars
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).