serval

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Last year during a 'routine' drugs raid in a Dublin suburb, a jaguar and a serval were found in the garage of the house being raided.

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  1. noun A long-legged wildcat (Felis serval) of Africa, having a tawny coat with black spots and large erect ears without tufts.

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  • This is a serval cat. —  David Griffin on how photography connects us
  • “This is pathetic,” Fang whispered, and I turned to see him looking at a large cat, like a serval or a margay. —  Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
  • Last year during a 'routine' drugs raid in a Dublin suburb, a jaguar and a serval were found in the garage of the house being raided. —  Blather.net newsfeed
  • * A serval (an African wild cat) escaped from a home near Aurora in November 2006. —  YubaNet.com
  • Is such a good website it compares serval companies from Delta to United and you can choose the one thats most suitable to you. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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  1. French, from Portuguese (lobo) cerval, deerlike (wolf), lynx, from Late Latin cervālis, from Latin cervus, deer; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = F. Spanish Portuguese G. serval, from a S.African native name (?).
 

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