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Definition of Servals
1. serval [n] - See also: serval
Lexicographical Neighbors of Servals
Literary usage of Servals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1851)
"which replace the tiger in the Malayan Archipelago. 6. Gue- pars or hunting
tigers, in Asia and Africa. 7. servals in torrid Africa, ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"... corresponds somewhat to the servals, but is not the least like a lynx, as the
servals are. It is entirely a tree-cat, and lives on birds and monkeys. ..."
3. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"It is impossible to give a detailed description of each variety here, but the
servals of India and Africa, like the American Ocelot, call for something ..."
4. The Last of the Masai by Sidney Langford Hinde, Hildegarde Beatrice (Ginsburg) Hinde (1901)
"In the Kikuyu Upland, melanosis is common among the servals, as is proved by ...
Although a great many servals have been killed by the European inhabitants, ..."
5. Wild Game in Zambezia by Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham (1914)
"servals are very untractable animals. While young they are pretty and interesting,
... The habits of civets are strikingly similar to those of the servals, ..."
6. A Conversational Grammar of the French Language: Being a Practical Guide to by L. Georg (1876)
"... pales ; les servals, servals. Nouns ending in ail form their plural regularly :
détail, detail, détails. The six following are exceptions and form their ..."
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