OUNCE


Meaning of OUNCE in English

n.

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English unce lynx, from Middle French, alteration (by misdivision, as if l'once the ounce) of lonce, probably from Old Italian lonza, from Middle Greek lynk-, lynx, from Greek

Date: 1774

: SNOW LEOPARD

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