leopardine

== English == === Etymology === From leopard +‎ -ine. === Adjective === leopardine (comparative more leopardine, superlative most leopardine) Resembling or characteristic of a leopard. Hypernyms: pantherine < feline Coordinate terms: leonine, tigrine Near-synonym: leopardlike (sometimes synonymous) 1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73: My leopardine beauties are rarer