[chileno]

Originally Posted by Perikles

That makes a bit more sense. As far as I know, there isn't a word. Normally, you can make a feminine derivative from an English noun by adding -ess. Some stupid sexists sometimes object to this, so that for some reason, and actress is now an actor. But you still have waiter - waitress. You also have lion - lioness, but because cheetah is not an English word (It's Hindi for spotted, I think) the ending doesn't work, so not *cheetahess.

So it's a female cheetah.

So, it isn't much differenfe in English from Spanish.