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feline
/ˈfilaɪn/
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What does feline mean?
adjective
- Of or pertaining to cats.
- catlike (resembling a cat); sleek, graceful, inscrutable, sensual, and/or cunning.
noun
- A cat: member of the cat family Felidae.
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noun
- Any member of Felinae, one of the two extant subdivisions of Felidae.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfilaɪn/
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He disliked cats, evidently regarding them as feline and treacherous, and he had no association with them.
"Laughter," Burton used to say, and he had "a curious feline laugh," "animates the brain and stimulates the lungs."
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Naturalists at present admit that Buffon was entirely mistaken with respect to the greatest of the feline race of America.
Dr. Fu-Manchu recovered himself, took up the lantern and, turning abruptly, walked to the door, with his awkward, yet feline gait.
There is a nobility in the character of a lion which differs entirely from the slinking habits of tigers, leopards, and the feline race in general.