genus felis
Noun
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Type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats (synset 102123886)
is a type of: mammal genus - a genus of mammalsmember holonym:
- 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
belongs to: family felidae, felidae - cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigerssame as: felis
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