leopardine

English

Etymology

From leopard +‎ -ine.

Adjective

leopardine (comparative more leopardine, superlative most leopardine)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.
   • 1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73:

     My leopardine beauties are rarer