BLACK CAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black cat mean? 

• BLACK CAT (noun)
  The noun BLACK CAT has 1 sense:

1. large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal

  Familiarity information: BLACK CAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK CAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black cat; fisher; fisher cat; Martes pennanti; pekan

Hypernyms ("black cat" is a kind of...):

marten; marten cat (agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels)

 Context examples 

Only one window showed a light behind them; in it there stood a lamp, and beside it, seated at a table, was a dear old ruddy-faced woman in a country cap. She was bending over her knitting and stopping occasionally to stroke a large black cat upon a stool beside her.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the kitchen a kettle was singing on the fire, and a large black cat lay coiled up in the basket; but there was no sign of the woman whom I had seen before.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two young, graceful women—ladies in every point—sat, one in a low rocking-chair, the other on a lower stool; both wore deep mourning of crape and bombazeen, which sombre garb singularly set off very fair necks and faces: a large old pointer dog rested its massive head on the knee of one girl—in the lap of the other was cushioned a black cat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)