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Leopard vs Fuzzy - What's the difference?

leopard | fuzzy |

As nouns the difference between leopard and fuzzy

is that leopard is leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, panthera pardus) while fuzzy is an individual flake of fuzzies.

As an adjective fuzzy is

covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme fuzzy wuzzy was a bear .

leopard

English

(wikipedia leopard)

Alternative forms

* lybard * libbard

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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, 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.
  • * 1998 , Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel , page 201,
    • 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.
  • * 2005 , Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine , page 197,
    • Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
  • 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 , page 81,
    • 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.
  • Specifically, a male leopard ; in contrast to leopardess .
  • (heraldiccharge) A lion passant guardant.

    • Synonyms

    * (Panthera pardus) common leopard

    Derived 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 leopard

    Related terms

    * camelopard

    Hypernyms

    * panther

    Anagrams

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    fuzzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals. Mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.
  • Vague or imprecise.
    • My recollection of that event is fuzzy .
  • Not clear; unfocused.
    • I finally threw out a large stack of fuzzy photos.

    Derived terms

    * fuzzily * fuzziness * fuzzy logic * fuzzy mathematics * fuzzy set * fuzzy control * fuzzy concept * fuzzy relation

    Noun

    (fuzzies)
  • an individual flake of fuzzies
    • You've got a fuzzy on your coat.