Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Feline.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Felidæ.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws; a member of the
Felidae .
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
Etymologies
- From New Latin Fēlidae, family name, from Fēlis, type genus, from Latin fēlēs, cat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Allaby took 45 samples from the wounds of the deer carcasses with the aim of testing specifically for DNA from the saliva of any canid (for instance dog or fox) or felid (cat) species which had killed or scavenged from the deer.”
The Guardian: DNA tests on mauled deer give wild cat theorists paws for thought
“Arnold outlines quite well the history, in brief, of the regions felid unknowns.”
“This is good news for conservationists, and felid follows.”
“I just hope your new felid "friends" didn't over-welcome you by mauling you.”
“Can an exotic felid survive in the British countryside?”
“Supposedly, the wounds present on these corpses, and the manner in which they have been gutted and/or eaten, are diagnostic of felid killers.”
“Still, for a felid that lacks sabre teeth, it's amazing (and gruesome) to see such a bloody spectacle.”
“In the world of global wildlife conservation, Marwell is an important place, having played key roles in captive breeding and/or reintroduction schemes for Takhi Equus przewalskii (the equid formerly known as Przewalski's horse), Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica (the felid formerly known as the Siberian tiger) and Scimitar-horned oryx Oryx dammah.”
“As Reumer et al. note, this is about the same age as the Isturitz statuette and therefore confirms the long-suspected late survival of this felid in Europe.”
“In March 2000 the fishing vessel UK33 trawled a partial felid lower jaw from an area SE of the Brown Bank in the North Sea, an area previously known for yielding Pleistocene and Holocene fossil mammals.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘felid’.
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cats
alleycat, baudrons, bobcat, caracal, catamount, catamountain, cathood, catlike, cattish, cattishly, cheetah, chetah and 118 more...
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Flip your lid
gelid, eyelid, annelid, chilidog, holiday, stolid, cichlid, consolidate, pallid, sipunculid, valid, squalid and 71 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 339 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
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Prehistoric and Extinct Mammals 'n' S...
Excuse our dust while we renovate to serve you better.
aepycamelus, adapid, archaeocete, zygorhiza, zalambdalestes, woolly rhino, coelodonta, woolly mammoth, ausktribosphenos, uintatherium, trilophodon, trigonias and 126 more...
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words that end in -id
vellid, tabid, rapid, sapid, insipid, ibid, valid, acrid, arid, balanid, calid, felid and 35 more...
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Wonders of the word
optic to coptic
alphabit, betamaximum, glammar, iota jot set, deltidium, kappale, chicane, chide, inusitate, pazend, abjad, Pinyin and 20 more...
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Animals that Have Baculums (Bacula? B...
It might be easier to list the animal classes that don't have these: humans, equids, marsupials, lagomorphs, and hyenas. Who knew? Besides skipvia, I mean?
This article states clearly ...walrus, otter, raccoon, mink, beaver, rat, gorilla, chimpanzee, canid, felid, bat, bushbaby and 5 more...
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