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Cheetah   Listen
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Cheetah  n.  (Written also chetah)  (Zool.) A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is Cynaelurus laneus. It runs very fast in short spurts while hunting.






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"Cheetah" Quotes from Famous Books



... largely into the life of the Bedawin, and many tribes train falcons, with which they hunt gazelles, and in the Lybian desert the "cheetah," or hunting leopard, is tamed and used for the same purpose, and in this way the monotony of many a long desert march ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt • R. Talbot Kelly

... "Look here, Cheetah, don't you give way to your early morning habit of calling your own true love a fool," ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Cheetah" :   big cat, cat, Acinonyx



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