FELIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Felis mean? 

• FELIS (noun)
  The noun FELIS has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats

  Familiarity information: FELIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FELIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Felis; genus Felis

Hypernyms ("Felis" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Felis"):

domestic cat; Felis catus; Felis domesticus; house cat (any domesticated member of the genus Felis)

wildcat (any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild)

catamountain; European wildcat; Felis silvestris (bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat)

catamount; cougar; Felis concolor; mountain lion; painter; panther; puma (large American feline resembling a lion)

Felis pardalis; ocelot; panther cat (nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat)

eyra; Felis yagouaroundi; jaguarondi; jaguarundi; jaguarundi cat (long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat)

caffer cat; Felis ocreata; kaffir cat (widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor)

Felis chaus; jungle cat (small Asiatic wildcat)

Felis serval; serval (slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat)

Felis bengalensis; leopard cat (small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia)

Felis tigrina; tiger cat (medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat)

Felis wiedi; margay; margay cat (small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil)

Felis manul; manul; Pallas's cat (small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia)

Holonyms ("Felis" is a member of...):

family Felidae; Felidae (cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)

 Context examples 

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Helicobacter felis.

(Helicobacter felis, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

H. felis infection induces chronic gastric inflammation.

(Helicobacter felis, NCI Thesaurus)

A bacterial infection caused by Rickettsia typhi or Rickettsia felis.

(Endemic Typhus Fever, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Cat, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The domestic cat, Felis catus.

(Cat, NCI Thesaurus)