big cat

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

big cat - any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wildcatfamily Felidae, Felidae - cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigersfelid, feline - any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile clawsPanthera pardus, leopard - large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spotsPanthera uncia, snow leopard, ounce - large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish furFelis onca, jaguar, panther, Panthera onca - a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felisking of beasts, lion, Panthera leo - large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the malePanthera tigris, tiger - large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangeredliger - offspring of a male lion and a female tigertiglon, tigon - offspring of a male tiger and a female lionAcinonyx jubatus, cheetah, chetah - long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down gamesabertooth, saber-toothed tiger - any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene

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