| 单词 | feline |
| 释义 | feline (once / 5422 pages) adjn You can describe your kitten as your young feline friend, since feline describes anything having to do with cats. The adjective feline is useful when you're talking about cats — just as canine describes dogs, and ursine describes bears. You might talk about the special feline food and toys you buy for your pet, or describe his feline beauty. You can even describe a person as feline, if something about him or her is catlike. The Latin root felinus means "of or belonging to a cat," from feles, "cat." WORD FAMILYfeline: felinely, felines USAGE EXAMPLESThe feline calendar, inundated with photo submissions, started printing two editions a year a few years ago to fit them all. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) That’s because the early-morning visitor was no domestic feline munching on some unlucky rodent. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) In the Kalahari Desert, the new solar-powered Lodge at Feline Fields aims to use low-impact tourism to drive conservation in the region. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) 1adj of or relating to cats feline fur 2n any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws Syn|Hypo|Hyper felid cat, true cat feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats big cat, catany of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild Felis catus, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, house catany domesticated member of the genus Felis wildcatany small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild Panthera pardus, leopardlarge feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots Panthera uncia, ounce, snow leopardlarge feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur Felis onca, Panthera onca, jaguar, panthera large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis Panthera leo, king of beasts, lionlarge gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male Panthera tigris, tigerlarge feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered ligeroffspring of a male lion and a female tiger tiglon, tigonoffspring of a male tiger and a female lion Acinonyx jubatus, cheetah, chetahlong-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game saber-toothed tiger, sabertoothany of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene carnivore a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal |
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