Jaguar vs. Cougar

Jaguarnoun

A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

Jaguarnoun

A large and powerful feline animal (Panthera onca, formerly Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. It is also called the panther and the American tiger.

Jaguarnoun

a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis

Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large felid species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. Its distinctively marked coat features pale yellow to tan colored fur covered by spots that transition to rosettes on the sides.

Cougarnoun

A mountain lion; Puma concolor.

Cougarnoun

An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.

Cougarnoun

An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

Cougarnoun

large American feline resembling a lion

Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) is a large cat of the subfamily Felinae. Native to the Americas, its range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere.