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BIG CAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
Synonyms:
big cat; cat
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("big cat" is a kind of...):
felid; feline (any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "big cat"):
leopard; Panthera pardus (large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots)
ounce; Panthera uncia; snow leopard (large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur)
Felis onca; jaguar; panther; Panthera onca (a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis)
king of beasts; lion; Panthera leo (large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male)
Panthera tigris; tiger (large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered)
liger (offspring of a male lion and a female tiger)
tiglon; tigon (offspring of a male tiger and a female lion)
Acinonyx jubatus; cheetah; chetah (long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game)
saber-toothed tiger; sabertooth (any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene)
Holonyms ("big cat" is a member of...):
family Felidae; Felidae (cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)
