FAMILY FELIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Felidae mean? 

• FAMILY FELIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY FELIDAE has 1 sense:

1. cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers

  Familiarity information: FAMILY FELIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY FELIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Felidae; Felidae

Hypernyms ("family Felidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Felidae"):

felid; feline (any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws)

Felis; genus Felis (type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats)

genus Lynx (lynxes)

big cat; cat (any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild)

genus Panthera; Panthera (lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)

Acinonyx; genus Acinonyx (cheetahs)

genus Smiledon; Smiledon (saber-toothed tigers)

genus Nimravus; Nimravus (false sabertoothed tigers)

Holonyms ("family Felidae" is a member of...):

Carnivora; order Carnivora (cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia)

 Context examples 

The domestic cat, Felis catus, of the carnivore family Felidae, comprising over 30 different breeds.

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