| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| name commonly applied to the leopard, especially to a black leopard. It is also used locally to designate various other cats including the jaguar and the puma. In animal systematics the generic name Panthera is given to all the big roaring catsthe lion, tiger, and leopardas well as to the jaguar and, in some systems, the snow leopard. |
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