Puris

Puris were a type of animal lifeform indigenous to the northern continent of Qo'noS. Good specimens, such as those fat and sleek, could fetch a nice price at market.

The word puris is also sometimes used in insults. Notably, Emperor Kapronek once compared his own people, the Kamorh'dag, to a herd of puris sinking in a salt marsh.

Leonard McCoy noted that the cubaya of Alpha Maluria VI bore more than a passing resemblance to puris, and deduced that they would probably share the puris ' powerful revulsion against the fireblossom plant.