Crossword-Solution: PUMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puma | n. | A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PUMA | anagram | UPMA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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Sentences with PUMA (5)
From beneath me I heard a shrill cry of, “Oh, it's my sore knee!” And Harold wriggled himself free from the puma's clutches, bellowing dismally.
Not about the Southwest or even North America, but Hudson's chapters on "The Puma," "Some Curious Animal Weapons," "The Mephitic Skunk," "Humming Birds," "The Strange Instincts of Cattle," "Horse and Man," etc.
CHAPTER VI BAHIA BLANCA TO BUENOS AYRES Set out for Buenos Ayres--Rio Sauce--Sierra Ventana--Third Posta--Driving Horses--Bolas--Partridges and Foxes--Features of the Country--Long-legged Plover--Teru-tero--Hail-storm--Natural Enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen--Flesh of Puma--Meat Diet--Guardia del Monte--Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation--Cardoon--Buenos Ayres--Corral where Cattle are Slaughtered.
What is the cause of this difference in their shyness? Do they mistake a man in the distance for their chief enemy the puma? Or does curiosity overcome their timidity? That they are curious is certain; for if a person lies on the ground, and plays strange antics, such as throwing up his feet in the air, they will almost always approach by degrees to reconnoitre him.
The story got started that there was a big puma--the king of them all--carrying off the little ones, and my brother and I awoke one morning to find every laborer missing.
Quotes with PUMA (3)
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting…
It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart, for the heart, too, has its night and its wild surges, as strong an instinct for the hunt as a wolf or a stag. The human night is filled with the crouching forms of dreams, desires, vanities, self-interest, mad love, envy, and the thirst for revenge, as the desert night conceals the puma, the hawk and the jackal.
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 424 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).