Leopard vs False - What's the difference?
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Panthera pardus , a large wild cat with a spotted coat, indigenous to Africa and Asia.
* 1990 , Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species , 1992,
* 1998 , Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel ,
* 2005 , Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine ,
Either of two similar large cats native to Asia, also with spotted coats: Neofelis nebulosa'' (clouded leopard) or ''Uncia uncia (snow leopard).
* 2005 , Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations ,
Specifically, a male leopard ; in contrast to leopardess .
(heraldiccharge) A lion passant guardant.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun leopard
is leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, panthera pardus).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.leopard
English
(wikipedia leopard)Alternative forms
* lybard * libbardNoun
(en noun)page 284,
- During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard' was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of '''leopards''' to recognize that, even in the absence of a '''leopard''', a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a ' leopard itself.
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- The leopard (Panthera pardus'' or ''Felis pardus cf tulliana ) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
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- Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
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- There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards'—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded ' leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.
Synonyms
* (Panthera pardus) common leopardDerived terms
* a leopard cannot change its spots * clouded leopard * common leopard * leopardess * leopard cat * leopard complex * leopard frog * leopard gecko * leopard moth * leopard seal * leopard shark * leopard tortoise * leopard's head * leopardsbane * Louisiana Catahoula leopard dog * snow leopardHypernyms
* pantherAnagrams
* * ----false
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Adjective
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