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Definition of Jungle cat
1. Noun. Small Asiatic wildcat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jungle Cat
Literary usage of Jungle cat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"THE COMMON jungle cat (Fete Chans) A The common jungle-cat is of a ... THE ORNATE
jungle cat (Fell* ornata). J This cat "is at once well known from all the ..."
2. Two Years in the Jungle: The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India by William Temple Hornaday (1885)
"A Long Prayer.—The Saras Crane.—QUOIT Antics.— The Jabiru.—Nests of the Scavenger
Vulture.—Peacocks.—A jungle cat Surprised.—The Jackals' Serenade.—Turtles. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Other Indian cats with a tawny or fulvous type of colouring are probably the more
or less modified descendants of the jungle-cat. From the same stock may be ..."
4. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"The Common Jungle-Cat (Jerdon's No. 115). NATIVE NAMES.—Kutas (according to
Jerdon, but I have always found this applied to the Paradoxurus), ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"JUNGLE-CAT, or CHAUS, the common wildcat of India (Felis chaus). ... Another
Indian "jungle-cat" is the handsome F. ornato, which is profusely spotted ..."
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