FELIS

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats

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)

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)