wildcat

1. An exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field (synset 104591925)
   is a type of: oil well, oiler - a well that yields or has yielded oil
   same as: wildcat well
2. A cruelly rapacious person (synset 109864997)
   is a type of: aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks
   same as: beast, brute, savage, wolf
3. Any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild (synset 102127275)
   is a type of: cat, true cat - feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
   subtypes:

   • sand cat - a desert wildcat
   • 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
   • catamount, lynx - short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur
   belongs to: felis, genus felis - type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats

1. Outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices (synset 302282708)
   "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes"
   similar to: unsound - not sound financially
2. Without official authorization (synset 301638242)
   "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage"
   similar to: unofficial - not having official authority or sanction
   same as: unauthorised, unauthorized
3. (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive (synset 300881680)
   "drilling there would be strictly a wildcat operation"; "a wildcat mine"; "wildcat drilling"; "wildcat wells"
   similar to: explorative, exploratory - serving in or intended for exploration or discovery

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