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Definition of Caracal
1. Noun. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
Definition of Caracal
1. n. A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.
Definition of Caracal
1. Noun. A type of mountain cat, of genus ''Caracal'', native to Southern Africa, Turkestan and India. Scientific name: ''Caracal caracal'' or ''Felis caracal''. ¹
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Definition of Caracal
1. an African lynx [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caracal
Literary usage of Caracal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"caracal. Tail cylindrical, reaching to the hocks. Limbs more equal. ... caracal,
Gray, PZS 1867, p. 277. caracal melanotis. BM Felis caracal ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... caracal, panther, Nile fox, shrew mouse, hedgehog, ichneumon, genet, and wild
boar. Rats are very numerous. Many of the birds of Palestine are migratory ..."
3. Lake Ngami, Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings by Charles John Andersson, John Charles Frémont (1857)
"... SEVERAL DESTROYED BY SPRING-GUNS THE LATTER DESCRIBED VISIT FROM A LEOPARD ;
IT WOUNDS A DOG ; CHASE AND DEATH OF THE LEOPARD THE caracal. ..."
4. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"Their legs are long and their tail is, with one exception (that of the caracal),
very short. Their ears also are tufted at the tip. ..."
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