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| Angora |
any of various animals that have long silky hair, such as a cat, rabbit, or goat. [1/4 definitions] |
| blue point |
a variety of Siamese cat with a pale body and dark bluish gray points. |
| cat1 |
any of the larger wild animals related to the domestic cat, such as the tiger, lion, or bobcat. [1/4 definitions] |
| catbird |
a dark gray North American songbird having one call that sounds like the mewing of a cat. |
| caterwaul |
to make the long, wailing or screeching sounds of a cat in heat. [2/3 definitions] |
| cattish |
resembling a cat; feline. [1/2 definitions] |
| cheetah |
a very swift, long-legged, leopardlike cat of Africa and southern Asia, sometimes trained for hunting game. |
| Cheshire cat |
in the nineteenth-century children's novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a grinning cat that magically disappears, his grin being the last to fade away. |
| civet |
the civet cat. [3 definitions] |
| cougar |
a large tan wild cat of North and South America; mountain lion; puma. |
| feline |
resembling a cat in some characteristic, esp. grace or stealth of movement. [2/3 definitions] |
| fur |
the soft thick hair that covers the bodies of certain animals, such as the cat, rabbit, mink, or fox. [1/5 definitions] |
| grimalkin |
a cat, esp. an old female cat. [1/2 definitions] |
| Himalayan |
any of a breed of domestic cat, bred by crossing Siamese and Persian cats, that has blue eyes and long, light-colored fur except on the face, ears, feet, and tail, which are dark. [1/3 definitions] |
| jaguar |
a large wild cat, resembling but larger than a leopard, that is native to Central and South America. |
| jaguarondi |
a small wild cat of South America with a long slender body and tail. |
| kitten |
a cat that is not yet full-grown. [1/2 definitions] |
| kitty1 |
a kitten or cat. |
| korat |
any of a breed of cat having a shiny bluish coat and large greenish eyes. |
| leopard |
a large, spotted wild cat found in southern Asia and Africa. [1/2 definitions] |
| lion |
a large carnivorous member of the cat family, native to Africa and parts of Asia, that has a short tan coat and, in the male, a heavy mane. [2/3 definitions] |
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