leopardine

adj

leopardine

adj

Etymology From leopard + -ine.

1

Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.

  • Near-synonym: leopardlike (sometimes synonymous)
  • My leopardine beauties are rarer1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73

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