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Pantherine   Listen
adjective
Pantherine  adj.  Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pantherine" Quotes from Famous Books



... gypsy girl, and to the roads, was according to the law of natural selection, for they were wonderfully well matched. The young man had the grace inseparable from a fine figure and a handsome face, while the girl was tall, lithe, and pantherine, with the diavolesque charm which, though often attributed by fast-fashionable novelists to their heroines, is really never found except among the lowborn beauties of nature. It is the beauty of the Imp and of the Serpent; it fades with letters; it dies in the drawing-room or on the ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland



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