ocelot
pronunciation
How to pronounce ocelot in British English:
UK [ˈɒsəlɒt]
How to pronounce ocelot in American English:
US [ˈɑsəlɑt]
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- Noun:
- nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat
Word Origin
- ocelot (n.)
- "large wildcat of Central and South America," 1775, from French ocelot, a word formed by French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), from Nahuatl (Aztecan) ocelotl "jaguar" (in full tlalocelotl, a compound formed with tlalli "field").
Example
- 1. An ocelot ( leopardus pardalis ) at the animal rescue centre in the nicaraguan national zoo .
- 2. Instead she simply observed gudrun in her most laconic latin manner , waiting like an ocelot for the other to commit herself again .
- 3. The only consolation about being caught by an ocelot is that you never see them coming .
- 4. This ocelot is not prepared to take the plunge , a deterrence that wouldn 't matter to the fishing cat .
- 5. Those men were from the ocelot unit .