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Definition of Feline
1. Noun. Any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws.
Generic synonyms: Carnivore
Group relationships: Family Felidae, Felidae
Specialized synonyms: Cat, True Cat, Big Cat, Cat
Terms within: Paw
2. Adjective. Of or relating to cats. "Feline fur"
Definition of Feline
1. a. Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidæ; as, the feline race; feline voracity.
Definition of Feline
1. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to, the cat. ¹
2. Adjective. catlike (resembling a cat) ¹
3. Noun. A cat; member of the cat family Felidae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Feline
1. an animal of the cat family [n -S]
Medical Definition of Feline
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Feline
Literary usage of Feline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1839)
"IN a country so thickly inhabited, and cultivated for so long a time, as China,
we should not expect to find many of those large feline animals which are so ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1875)
"The extensor tendon must also aid materially in initiating the action which is
passively maintained by the round ligament. feline Claw (Ocelot), partly ..."
3. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"Nevertheless it is a fact that the genera which most approach ordinary non-feline
carnivora—the genera namely Arc}i(eturns and ..."
4. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1836)
"THIRD animals of the feline species, by which they arity in TIT • — are enabled
to preserve the sharpness of their claws on the most flinty path. ..."
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