cheetah
noun/ˈtʃiːtə/
/ˈtʃiːtə/
- a wild animal of the cat family that has black spots and that runs very fastTopics Animalsb2Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Hindi cītā, perhaps from Sanskrit citraka ‘leopard’.
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