mountain lion

Questions about mountain lion

What does mountain lion mean?

mountain lion means "large American feline resembling a lion".

What is another word for mountain lion?

Close synonyms include cougar, puma, catamount, painter, panther. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mountain lion a common word?

mountain lion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.