cheetah

Examples

• All

• When the dust cleared, we were rewarded for our patience by this cheetah making a kill.

  Academic text (2003)

• On another day in Botswana, we found a mother cheetah with two cubs.

  Academic text (2003)

• And So what a lot of animals do is they follow the cheetah, they watch the cheetah.

• So maybe we could just explore that that idea because obviously a cheetah is very fast.

  Andrew Huberman

• Tonight, a cheetah came into our trees for the third night in a row.

  Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)

• Later the same day, we watched a cheetah and her three cubs.

  Academic text (1999)

• Our driver told us the cheetahs had to hunt daily because the cubs were so large.

  Academic text (2003)

• We need bears, we need cheetahs, we need lions, we need foxes.

• Some zebras and giraffes were watching the chase, and suddenly the cheetahs were chasing them.

  Academic text (1999)

• The cheetah is known for being the fastest land mammal on Earth.

Synonyms

A

Acinonyx

vscheetah

• Specialized

1 9.9

A group of large cats that includes the cheetah

is narrower meaning a single species not the whole genus

A

Acinonyx jubatus

vscheetah

• Specialized

1 9.9

A large slim spotted cat from Africa and southwest Asia that runs faster than any other land animal

is the everyday common name used outside scientific contexts

G

genus Acinonyx

vscheetah

• Specialized

1 9.9

A group of big cats that includes cheetahs

is about the single species rather than the whole taxonomic genus

C

chetah

vscheetah

• Archaic

2.6

A large wild cat with long legs and black spots that runs very fast

is the modern preferred spelling used in everyday writing

How Fast

cheetah

50 1.0

pronghorn

• US

3 8.4

gazelle

25 4.1

impala

• South African

4 6.1

deer

347 1.0

cow

629 1.0

elephant

373 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology