Lioness vs. Cougar

Lionessnoun

A female lion.

Cougarnoun

A mountain lion; Puma concolor.

‘Florida panther’;

Lionessnoun

A female lion.

Cougarnoun

An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.

‘A cougar approached Warren at the Palomino Club and asked for a dance.’;

Lionessnoun

a female lion

Cougarnoun

An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

Cougarnoun

large American feline resembling a lion

Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) is a large cat of the subfamily Felinae. Native to the Americas, its range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere.