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FELIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats
Synonyms:
Felis; genus Felis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Felis" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "Felis"):
domestic cat; Felis catus; Felis domesticus; house cat (any domesticated member of the genus Felis)
wildcat (any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild)
catamountain; European wildcat; Felis silvestris (bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat)
catamount; cougar; Felis concolor; mountain lion; painter; panther; puma (large American feline resembling a lion)
Felis pardalis; ocelot; panther cat (nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat)
eyra; Felis yagouaroundi; jaguarondi; jaguarundi; jaguarundi cat (long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat)
caffer cat; Felis ocreata; kaffir cat (widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor)
Felis chaus; jungle cat (small Asiatic wildcat)
Felis serval; serval (slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat)
Felis bengalensis; leopard cat (small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia)
Felis tigrina; tiger cat (medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat)
Felis wiedi; margay; margay cat (small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil)
Felis manul; manul; Pallas's cat (small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia)
Holonyms ("Felis" is a member of...):
family Felidae; Felidae (cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)
