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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The genus of large felines including the lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; and saber-toothed tigers.
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- noun lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers
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June 2nd, 2010 at 2: 36 pm boy I remember the good old days of cartoons,, the eye of panthera so f – ing kool .. cant wait for the new one so that I can show my kids …
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Yet this practice, which converts solitary predators into livestock for Chinese consumers, has been hailed as a pragmatic strategy for bringing the endangered tiger (panthera tigris) back from the brink of extinction.
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Endemic species include Sphyrna mokarran, Torpedo panthera, and Terapon jarbua (see Botros, 1971).
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This ecoregion may also harbor Barbary leopards (Panthera pardus panthera CR), although these rare cats are mostly confined to remote montane and rugged foothill areas.
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Mammals found in this region include the only African endemic species of deer, Cervus elaphus barbarus, the Barbary leopard (Panthera pardus panthera), the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), and before its extinction in the 1930s, the Atlas lion (Panthera leo leo).
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A number of rare and endemic mammals are still present in these conifer forests, including the threatened Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), and the last individuals of the Barbary leopard (Panthera pardus subsp. panthera).
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I imagine having an extra set of eyes, ears and teeth would have helped against meat eating heavyweights like arctodus simus, homotherium latidens, panthera leo atrox, smilodon fatalis and who knows, maybe even relict populations of titanis walleri.
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But the work grew cold, and you came between, and the sun put out the fire on the hearth nec vult panthera domari!
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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The leopard (panthera), though already growing scarce, was found in Cilicia in Cicero's time.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical) 1874
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I should say _Felis panthera_ which, being common to Asia and Africa, was probably the panther of the Romans and Greeks.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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