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    FELIS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcatsplay

    Synonyms:

    Felis; genus Felis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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