snow leopardess

See also: snow-leopardess

English

Alternative forms

• snow-leopardess

Noun

snow leopardess (plural snow leopardesses)

1. A female snow leopard.
   • 1970, Simon Harvester, Moscow Road, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, published 1971, →ISBN, page 86:

     Those were minor variations. Beneath them, no one need tell him, was an extremely determined individual. On that distant morning he had thought she had much in common with a snow leopardess, one of his worst similes. He wondered if anyone had tried to tame her since Gerin died. She was not the sort of woman men left alone.

   • 1993, Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, volume 98, page 92, column 1:

     The three snow leopardesses were: Natasha, who was 8 years old at the start of the study and was nulliparous; Chuma, who was 8 years old and had had one litter of cubs; and Omaha 6 who was included in the final two years of the behavioural phase of this study.

   • 1998 March, James Axler [pseudonym; Mark Ellis], Omega Path (Outlanders; 4), Don Mills, Ont.: Gold Eagle Books, Worldwide Library, page 190:

     Domi made a feral sound, half growl and half chuckle. She tensed like a snow leopardess preparing to leap on her prey.