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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or belonging to the family Felidae, which includes the lions, tigers, jaguars, and wild and domestic cats; felid.
  2. adj. Suggestive of a cat, as in suppleness or stealthiness.
  3. n. An animal of the family Felidae.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Catlike in form or structure, as an animal; of or pertaining to the Felidæ, Felinæ, or genus Felis; typically æluroid.
  2. Pertaining to or characteristic of animals of the cat tribe; cat-like in character or quality; resembling a cat in any respect: often applied to persons: as, feline softness of step; feline stealthiness, cruelty, or treachery.
  3. n. One of the Felidæ or Felinæ; a feline or cat-like animal; in popular use, a domestic cat.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, or pertaining to, the cat.
  2. adj. catlike (resembling a cat)
  3. n. A cat; member of the cat family Felidae.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidæ
  2. adj. Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
  2. adj. of or relating to cats

Etymologies

  1. Substantive use of the adjective feline, from Latin felinus (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin fēlīnus or Late Latin fēlīneus, both from Latin fēlēs, cat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • npydyuan Fain, forget foe-fear, 'flowerss! Friends found, forsooth! Sep 17, 2007

  • suunflowerss I have a feline perched on my chest as I feverishly fight the feeling of inflicting another infectious alliteration on my newly found friends and/or foes. Sep 16, 2007

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