Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling or related to the serval: as, the servaline cat, Felis servalina, of western Africa.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Related to, or resembling, the serval.

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  • adjective zoology Related to, or resembling, the serval.

Etymologies

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serval +‎ -ine?

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Examples

  • A few years prior, WCS researchers working in the same area 'photo-trapped' a Lowe's servaline genet, the first of its kind recorded in 70 years.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • The crested genet itself is often regarded as a sub-species of the servaline (Genetta servalina).

    Nigerian lowland forests 2007

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