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Definition: Puma |
PumaNoun1. Large American feline resembling a lion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puma" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Public Use Microdata Area) A geographic area created for the 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS). These areas replace the "county groups" used in the 1980 PUMS files and were defined by each state or local area according to Bureau specifications. Each PUMA must have at least 100,000 population and consists of a whole county or a subcounty area such as a minor civil division (MCD) in New England, a place, or a group of tracts. Counties or subcounty areas less than 100,000 were combined to produce PUMAs of at least 100,000 population. In the 1990 PUMS files, PUMAs area used to define (1) current residence in 1990, (2) residence in 1985, and (3) place of work. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The puma (Puma concolor, or Felis concolor) is a type of large hunting cat found in North and South America. It is also known by the regional names of cougar, mountain lion, panther, catamount, and painted cat. The term panther is more commonly associated with the black color variation of the leopard or the jaguar.
Puma
larger versionScientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: Puma Species: concolor Binomial name Puma concolor Hunted almost to extinction in the United States, the puma has made a dramatic comeback with an estimated 30,000 individuals in the western United States. Pumas are gradually extending their range to the east, following creek and river beds, and have reached Missouri and Michigan. It is anticipated that they will soon expand their range over the entire eastern and southern United States. Due to urbanization in the urban-wildland intermix, pumas often come into contact with people, especially in areas with a large population of deer, their natural prey. They have also begun preying on pets, such as dogs and cats, but have rarely turned to people as a source of food.
Subspecies
The Florida panther is a rare subspecies of puma that lives in the swamps of southern Florida in the United States, especially in the Everglades. There is currently a widespread effort in Florida to try to save the remaining population of Florida panthers as their numbers are extremely sparse.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Puma."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PUMA | English | Public Management Committee | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PumaSynonyms: catamount (n), cougar (n), mountain lion (n), painter (n), panther (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evil doer | Wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell-hound, sleuth-hound; catamount, cougar, jaguar, puma. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Puma |
| English words defined with "puma": American lion. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puma": Felis subfamily. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Puma" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (bomb, bombshell, cougar, puma), French (cougar, mountain cat, mountain lion, puma), German (cougar, mountain lion, puma), Hungarian (American lion, cougar, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma), Italian (cougar, puma), Portuguese (cougar, puma), Romanian (carcajou, mountain cat, mountain lion, panther), Serbo-Croatian (puma), Spanish (cougar, panther, puma), Swedish (cougar, mountain lion, puma), Turkish (cougar, mountain lion, puma). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Puma (1959) Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz (2000) La Hija del Puma (1994) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Puma Robotic Arm. Credit: NASA. |  | Alexander Crowell with his gun, his dog, and a large puma that he killed at Barnard, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Puma" by Mo Commentary: "^^." | "Puma" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "Puma logo on the side of a pool table." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Puma growling. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Puma" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.04% of the time. "Puma" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.04% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.96% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "puma" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Puma | Last name | 1,000 | 9,095 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Germany | Puma Aktiengesellscaft Rudolf Dassler Sport | USA | Puma Technology, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "puma": puma-kumbha, puma-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
puma | 3,119 | puma running shoes | 41 |
puma shoes | 972 | womens puma shoes | 37 |
puma sneaker | 258 | puma sprint | 36 |
mostro puma | 146 | pete puma | 36 |
puma knife | 119 | puma jacket | 36 |
ford puma | 102 | puma outlet | 35 |
puma anjan | 81 | puma soccer shoes | 34 |
california puma | 72 | puma apparel | 34 |
puma roma | 70 | puma hat | 33 |
puma watch | 70 | puma baseball shoes | 29 |
puma clothing | 70 | el jose luis puma rodriguez | 29 |
avanti puma | 59 | puma baseball cleats | 28 |
puma store | 51 | puma suede | 27 |
logo puma | 48 | man puma shoes | 27 |
puma bag | 45 | puma sandal | 26 |
puma soccer | 45 | puma shirt | 24 |
puma tennis shoes | 43 | circat puma | 24 |
cat puma speed | 42 | puma technology | 24 |
puma footwear | 42 | puma soccer cleats | 24 |
puma sparco | 41 | puma speedcat | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "puma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pumë (cougar). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرو تلكوجر, كوجر (mountain cat, poona), أسد أمريكي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пума (american panther, catamount, cougar). (various references) | |
Chinese | 美洲狮. (various references) | |
Czech | puma (bomb, bombshell, cougar). (various references) | |
Danish | underart af puma (Costa Rican puma, Eastern puma, Florida puma). (various references) | |
Dutch | poema (cougar, mountain lion). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pumo (cougar, mountain lion). (various references) | |
Finnish | puuma. (various references) | |
French | puma (Florida puma). (various references) | |
German | puma (cougar, mountain lion). (various references) | |
Greek | πούμα, αμερικάνικοσ λέων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | puma (American lion, cougar, mountain lion, painter, panther). (various references) | |
Irish | púma (cougar, mountain lion). (various references) | |
Italian | puma (cougar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブ男 (beggar, homeless, poodle, pool bar, powder, swimming pool, ugly man), アメーバ赤痢 (AMeDAS, amenity, American, American casual, American coffee, American football, American Indian, American League, American plan, American rugby, American sign language, Americanism, Americanize, America's Cup race, Ameslan, amethyst, amoebic dysentery, Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System, crawfish, dogwood, redwood). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プーマ , アメリカライオン . (various references) | |
Korean | 퓨마 (Cougar). (various references) | |
Manx | koogyr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umapay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | puma (cougar), sussuarana, onça-parda. (various references) | |
Russian | пума (American mountain lion, cougar, mountain lion, panther). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | puma. (various references) | |
Spanish | puma (cougar, panther). (various references) | |
Sranan | tigri (cougar, jaguar, mountain lion), reditigri (cougar, mountain lion). (various references) | |
Swedish | puma (cougar, mountain lion). (various references) | |
Turkish | puma (cougar, mountain lion), dağaslanı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кугуар (cougar), пума (cougar). (various references) | |
Yucatec | koh (beak, bill, cougar, mountain lion, tooth). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puma": pumas. (additional references) | |
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"Puma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bumah, duma, guma, juma, jumar, Jumma, pamal, paume, pema, Pemba, pium, piuma, Pluna, pma, Pmac, pmal, pman, pmap, pme, pmi, poam, poema, poma, Pomc, pomm, pommy, Pomo, pompa, pua, Puba, Puca, puda, puga, pugman, puja, Puka, Pukar, pula, pum, pumal, pumba, pumi, pummy, pums, Punal, punan, punda, punga, puni, Punia, pura, Pusa, puta, Puura, Pymar, Pymm, Umaa, umax, Umca, upa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puma" (pronounced puw"mu) |
| 3 | -uw" m u | Duma, Summa. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-p-u" | |
-1 letter: amp, amu, map, pam, ump. | |
-2 letters: am, ma, mu, pa, um, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-p-u" | |
+1 letter: ampul, pumas. | |
+2 letters: ampule, ampuls, campus, gazump, makeup, markup, mudcap, pablum, pneuma, wampum, wampus, warmup. | |
+3 letters: ampoule, ampules, ampulla, amputee, galumph, gazumps, grampus, harumph, makeups, markups, matchup, mudcaps, mudflap, mudpack, pablums, pabulum, pallium, panicum, pantoum, plumage, plumate, pneumas, pomatum, primula, pugmark, pullman, putamen, smashup, sunlamp, tapetum, tempura, ulpanim, unclamp, wampums, warmups. | |
+4 letters: amplexus, ampoules, ampullae, ampullar, amputate, amputees, apterium, campused, campuses, capsicum, dumpcart, galumphs, gazumped, gazumper, harrumph, harumphs, humpback, marsupia, matchups, mudflaps, mudpacks, pabulums, palliums, paludism, panhuman, panicums, pantoums, paramour, patagium, penumbra, plastrum, platinum, plumaged, plumages, plumbago, plumeria, plumular, pomatums, prehuman, primulas, pugmarks, pullmans, puparium, putamina, smashups, sphagnum, stumpage, sunlamps, superman, tempuras, timpanum, tympanum, umpirage, unclamps, undamped, unmapped, upmarket, upstream, wampuses. | |
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