cheetah
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- noun
- /ˈʧiːtə/
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- One witness reported seeing a cheetah pursuing a Thomson's gazelle through the grounds before downing it several yards.
- cheetah cubs
- cheetahs hunt
- fast cheetahs
So maybe we could just explore that that idea because obviously a cheetah is very fast.
- So maybe we could just explore that that idea because obviously a cheetah is very fast.
- I think I say, we say Jake ordered an exotic big cat, a cheetah, and it escaped while in his possession.
- Yeah, yeah, I have not been that close to a cheetah, but I was really overjoyed.
- So thinking of cheetahs, what characteristic of a cheetah do you think is most important for it to catch its prey?
- And he his whole thing was runs, run, cheetahs run have the best run of your life.
- They would say that, you know, when I when I switch lion for gazelle, lion for cheetah, I also have to switch zebra for gazelle.
Examples
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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.
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So maybe we could just explore that that idea because obviously a cheetah is very fast.
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Tonight, a cheetah came into our trees for the third night in a row.
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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.
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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 large wild cat with long legs and black spots that runs very fast
A large slim spotted cat from Africa and southwest Asia that runs faster than any other land animal
A group of large cats that includes the cheetah
A group of big cats that includes cheetahs
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cheetah comes from the Hindi word chīta, which means 'spotted'. So think of a cheetah as 'the spotted one', which fits this fast, slim wild cat.