leopard

1. (inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.Examples: "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."

2. (inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.Synonyms: clouded leopard

3. (inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.Synonyms: snow leopard

4. (heraldry) A lion passant guardant.Examples: "Sometimes there is confusion over the heraldic leopard, the question being—When is a leopard not a leopard? There is a theory that the lion and leopard were the same thing, and that they were named entirely depending on their attitude—thus if the animal was passant guardant it was a leopard, but when rampant it was a lion. Nowadays a leopard is the genuine spotted article and quite unmistakeable. Some people still speak, wrongly, of the leopards of England, but it does no great harm as it is an ancient expression and everybody knows what it means."