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Definition of European wildcat
1. Noun. Bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat.
Group relationships: Felis, Genus Felis
Generic synonyms: Wildcat
Definition of European wildcat
1. Noun. ''Felis silvestris silvestris'', a subspecies of the wildcat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of European Wildcat
Literary usage of European wildcat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"As soon as the domestic breed became established in Europe it began to cross and
still does cross freely with the European wildcat (Felis catus). ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The other European wildcat and the North American wildcats are lynxes, formerly
set apart in a separate genus (Lynx); but most modern zoologists do not do ..."
3. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1876)
"... doubt its origin partly from a Nubian species, and partly from the European
wildcat. The inferences thus moved in a circle ; forms belong to the same ..."
4. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"... marshes, and riverine forest and salt grasslands with many rare plant species
and an important European wildcat population, also essential breeding, ..."
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